The Thunderbird, Spring 1974

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SPRING 1974
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This has been an eventful year for American Graduate School of International Management. Probably the most
dramatic thing was the decision of the Board of Directors to change the name. For many of you who graduated during
the brief period the School was Thunderbird Graduate School, I'm sure the new name is met with mixed feelings. It was
the belief of the Board that the name American Graduate School more effectively mirrors the worldwide reputation of the
institution. While the word "Thunderbird" was revered by almost everyone on the Board, it does have a Southwest conno­tation
and hence tended to give a regional implication to the School. The Board felt this detrimental to fund-raising and
recruiting students and faculty. The School had been called the American Institute for Foreign Trade for over twenty years
so the Board reasoned that it was in part returning to the original name, but upgrading from an institute to a graduate school.
Of course, all current students and alumni will continue to be called Thunderbirds and the address of the campus will al­ways
be Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, Arizona.
The School opened the spring semester 1974 with 802 students. This is a record high figure for spring enrollment.
In order to hold enrollment down to approximately 800 students all admissions were cut off in October. Presently we are
planning to accept 140 new students for the summer session and approximately 400 new students for the fall semester 1974.
One thing I would like to impress upon you alumni is that we are always looking for more excellent students so please do not
diminish your efforts in the search for additional students for the School. We appreciate all of your efforts. As you know, it
has been the Thunderbird alumni and students who have been the principal contributors to the continuing success of this
institution.
We have just filled two important academic chairs at the School. Dr. William Peterson has been appointed to the
John David Campbell Chair of American Business, financed by the Scaife Family Charitable Trust. Dr. Peterson is a na­tionally
known economist, formerly chief economist for United States Steel Corporation and a senior economist with the
U.S. Department of Commerce. He taught for several years at New York University and has been a columnist and book
reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. The Chase Manhattan Bank Chair of International Business Management has been
filled for the spring semester by Dr. Taeho Kim from Korea University. In the fall the Chair will be held by Dr. Kichiro
Hayashi from the Japanese Institute for International Studies and Training. Dr. Hayashi is a management authority, edu­cated
in Japan and at Indiana University in the United States. He is a part of our continuing close relationship with Japan.
Our links with other institutions around the world continue to grow. We still have our exchange program with the
Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, Korea. We are again sending a group of 60 students to the Autonomous University
in Guadalajara for the summer session of 1974. We are negotiating with ESAN, a management school in Peru, and with
the University of Navarre in Barcelona for exchange programs. Our exchange with the Japanese Institute for International
Sfudies and Training has now been approved by the Japanese government so we will be sending a professor and a group of
students to their campus each year. They will continue to have a large group of their students on our campus each fall
for a two week seminar.
I was pleased to have met with the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. alumni groups in the past few months. I
hope during the next year to visit with many more of you.
As you know, we continue to need your financial support. The dining hall project is getting closer to a complete
success. Won't you make out a check for that project today and forward it to Martha Snyder?
William Voris, President
NEW NAME F THUNDERBIR
On December 1st, 1973, Thunderbird became the AMERICAN GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT.
The name change was made on recommendation of the long-range planning
committee, who felt that the name "Thunderbird", while descriptive locally did not
convey the international worldwide position the School holds.
In announcing the changc, President Voris said: "It was felt that the name,
Thunderbird, limited the School in relation with corporations around the world in
recruiting money for the School and in placing graduates on a worldwide basis.
Some School representatives had encountered problems with the name while travel­ing
overseas, and some of our peers in the academic world and in corporations made
disparaging remarks about the commercial sound of the name, which gave a more
proprietary than graduate tone."
The campus will still be called Thunderbird, and graduates of the School will
continue to be known as Thunderbirds.
PHOENIX RESIDENTS DONATE CAMPUS CHAPEL
Through the generosity of Mr. A.ndrew P. Tell, Phoenix contractor, and his wife
Mary, Thunderbird will soon have an Interfaith Chapel. Ground breaking exercises
were held on Friday, November 30th. The new edifice is located at the corner of 59th
Avenue and Greenway Road.
The Chapel, built at a cost of $25,000, will accommodate a congregation of
approximately 60 and may be used by all faiths. It will be formally dedicated in
Spring '74.
Some twenty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Tell, formerly of Akron, Ohio, established
a family nonprofit foundation designed to assist and support worthy undertakings.
It is the policy of the Foundation to give all of its net earned income each year to
these purposes. Mr. Tell reports that it is a small Foundation, representing gifts and
bequests of various individuals, but mainly from the family itself. In future years
they hope more of its growth will come from various new sources.
Much credit for securing the benefactor goes to a group of Thunderbird stu­dents,
Chairmaned by Robert Luzar, who realized the need for such a center.
DECEMBER '73
GRADUATION
214 candidates for the Master of Inter­national
Management Degree were pre­sented
at the December 19th graduation
exercises held in the central quad. Also
presented were six candidates for the
Wives Course Diploma, and one Certifi­cate
of Advanced Study.
Dr. Michael J. Jucius, Professor of Man­agement,
College of Business Adminis­tration,
University of Arizona, delivered
the commencement address on the sub-
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni pub­lication
of the American Graduate
School of International Management)
is published in the Fall, Spring and
Summer of each year.
EDITOR: Martha L . Snyder
COVER: One of "The Mittens"
Monument Valley, Arizona,
Photo by Jerry D. Jacka,
the son of J erry A. Jacka
a former security guard at
Thunderbird.
ject of "The Role of Management in
International Business." The invocation
and benediction were given by The
Reverend Joseph Gillespie of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Church in Glendale.
Music was furnished by Dr. Paul E.
Paige of the Grand College Music De­partment.
The recipient of the Barton Kyle Yount
A ward was George Toufee DeBakey of
Ft. Dodge, Iowa. George received his
Business Administration Degree from
Drake University, and planned to fur­ther
his education at Southern Methodist
University. The BKY Award was estab­lished
in memory of the School's foun­der,
Lt. Gen. Barton Kyle Yount, and is
given to a member of each graduating
class. The Award is based on scholar­ship,
character and desire and potential
ability to serve America abroad.
The Phoenix Newspaper Advertising
Award was given to the team introduc­ing
"Lee's Jeans in Sweden" which won
top honors in the Fall '73 Advertising
Competition. The Athletic Award went
to Richard Sell. The Excellence In Cap­stone
Awards were presented to Stephen
J. Austin, Peter Hellwig, Michael May,
Thomas Sunde, James Dale, Milton Fye,
Gerry Sibley and Michael Fairley.
ALDIVIESO TO SUCCEED JACKLE
AS CHAIRMAN OF MODERN
LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
JackIe
Jorge Valdivieso, Professor of Spanish
at Thunderbird, will succeed Dr. Frank
R. JackIe as Chairman of the Depart­ment
of Modern Languages. The ap­pointment
will become effective on
September 1, 1974, and initially be for
one year, with the condition that Pro­fessor
Valdivieso may continue the
appointment as Chairman for the re­maining
two years of the normal three­year
period, providing that he obtains
his Ph.D. degree by September 1, 1975.
Selecting a successor for the post of
Chairman of the Department was a
difficult task, for the new Chairman
must continue the development of the
School's language program that has
been so conscientiously and successfully
guided by Dr. JackIe.
Jorge received a Licenciado en Derecho
y Ciencias Sod ales in 1960 from the
Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador, a
Master's Degree in Education from Ari­zona
State University in 1969, and a
Master's in Spanish from ASU in 1970.
He is currently pursuing a doctorate at
that University and has attended the
University of Paris - Sorbonne, Paris,
France.
Jorge became a member of the Thun­derbird
faculty in 1963. His experience
includes: Instructor in Spanish, Colegio
La Dolorosa, Loja, Ecuador; Colegio
Santo Domingo, Quito, Ecuador; Instruc­tor
in Spanish, St. Mary's College, Wi­nona,
Minnesota; Instructor, Spanish,
N.D.E.A. Language Institute, the Col':'
lege of Saint Teresa, San Josa State
College; Supervisor, N.D.E.A. Institute
in Spanish, Fairfield University; Faculty
Associate at Arizona State University;
Legal Advisor, Government of Ecuador;
Consul (A.H.) of Ecuador for Arizona,
Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. He has
also held special assignments in the
field of adult education, remedial read­ing,
programs for migrant children, etc.
He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi,
Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Mu Gamma and
Sigma Delta Pi fraternities; a member
of the Modern Language Association of
America, the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, the Arizona Foreign Langu­age
Association and the Arizona College
Association.
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He presented a paper at the Bilinguae Since coming to Thunderbird in 1971,
Business Education Conference held in Dr. Seshan has taught all levels of man-
Bisbee in 1972, and at the 1973 Annual agement courses, including a projects
Convention of the Arizona For eign La n- course which was the forerunner of
guage Association in Tucson. Capstone and then later taught the
Jorge 's wife, Teresa (formerly of the
Thunderbird language d epartment) is
an instructor at Arizona State Univer­sity.
Dr. Jackie came to AGSIM in the Fa ll
Semester of 1949 as an Associate Pro­fessor
of Spanish. He taught cla sses in
Spanish and Portuguese grammar and
Business Communications in English.
He has been a Professor of Languages
since 1956 and chairman of the Depart­ment
of Modern Languages since 1961.
Dr. Jackie received the Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1967 in Portu­guese
and Luso-Brazilian Studies. Dr.
JackIe will remain at Thunderbird and
devote fulltime to teaching. He plans to
teach Spanish and Portuguese grammar,
Business Communications, and to do
some research and writing.
GEER APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
WORLD BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
DR. MARSHALL
GEER II, a native
of New York, will
replace Dr. John E.
Drake as Chairman
of the World Busi­ness
Department.
Dr. Drake resigned
the post on Febru­ary
19th.
Before coming to
Thunderbird in Fall
1972, Dr. Geer was
an assistant profes­sor
of Economics at the University of
Colorado. He also taught at Colorado
State University and at the University
of Oregon. From 1968 to 1970, he was
a Fulbright Lecturer in Economics at
the Autonomous University of Guadala­jara,
Mexico. In 1966-67, he was a r e­search
assistant, University of Andes,
Merida, Venezuela.
He received his bachelor's degree in
Business Administration and Finance
and his MA degree from the Univer sity
of Denver. He also holds an MA and
Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Uni­versity
of Oregon.
Dr. Geer and his wife and three chil­dren
reside on the Thunderbird Campus.
SESHAN TO LEAVE
THUNDERBIRD
Dr. V. Seshan, professor of management
at Thunderbird, has submitted his re­signation,
effective after the Spring
semester. He indicated personal reasons
for leaving and said; "I feel my career
is ahead of me and I can find better
growth opportunities elsewhere."
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broader-scoped Capstone offered prior
to September 1973. He also gave the first
simulations course offered at the School.
Currently, he instructs the basic man­agement
course, International Man­agement
and Management Decisions
Systems.
Before joining the Thunderbird faculty,
Dr. Seshan was Staff Planning Analyst,
Corporate Planning Studies, for E. 1.
duPont de Nemours Company in Wil­mington,
Delaware, and an IBM Re­search
Fellow, Institute of Industrial
Research, Louisville, Kentucky.
THUNDERBIRD HOSTS
JAPANESE BANKER-STUDENTS
Fifty-nine Japanese students from the
Japanese-American Conversation Insti­tute
of the International Education
Center in Tokyo, Japan, were hosted by
Thunderbird in January. Their visit to
Phoenix was a part of a 25-day tour
that began in Los Angeles, with stops
in New Orleans, El Paso, and EI Cajon,
California.
The students, who are all bankers in
Japan, represented the largest banks in
that country. They attend the Japanese­American
Conversation Institute (JACI)
after approximately three to six years
of working experience. The course in
English is six months in duration, and
the U.S. tour is the final phase of the
program. During the tour the students
were exposed to the English language
and observed first hand the business
and social customs of the people of the
United States. After returning to their
jobs in Japan, they are available for
transfer to branches of their banks that
may be opening in other countries.
The tour leaders were Dr. Mitsuo Hashi­moto,
Academic Director, and Mr. Taka­shi
Suzuki, Assistant Head of JACI. The
program at Thunderbird was coordin­ated
by Chris Larsen, Director of Special
Projects.
JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN ENJOY THE
NIGHT LIFE AT TH'UN'DERBIRD
. PANESE COMPANY
REPRESENTATIVES VISIT
CAMPUS
Thunderbird hosted a group of Japa­nese
r epresentatives from major com­pa
nies for a one-day meeting in F ebru­ary.
The purpose of their visit was to
discuss the objectives of the School, our
curriculum, teaching methods and how
we differ from graduate schools of
business.
The group of seven was headed by Mr.
Yoshimas a Hemmi, Manager, Personnel
Department, Teyin Limited. Other mem­bers
were : J. Tawara, Manager, Re­search
& Development, Japan Industrial
& Voca tional Training Association; T.
Kamata, Education Manager, Education
& Training Division, Nippon Electric
Co., Ltd .; M. Saika, Director of Educa­tion
& Training Division, San yo Electric
Co., Ltd.; M. Yoshimura, Manager, Man-
3gement Development Department, Tak­akyu
Ltd.; T. Namiki, Head Training
Institute, Okamura Manufacturing Co.,
Ltd., and M. Otsuka, Overseas Manage­ment
& Engineering Research Asso­ciation.
ARAB ENVOY ON CAMPUS
Dr. Clovis Maksoud, special envoy of
the League of Arab States, recently
addressed Thunderbird students on the
current situation in the Middle East.
Dr. Maksoud's campus appearance was
sponsored by the Middle East and Africa
Club at Thunderbird.
He is senior editor and columnist for
AN-NAHAR in Cairo, and visited the
U.S . for three months on an intensified
campaign of information envisaged by
the Arab Summit Conference held last
November in Algiers.
Dr. Maksoud's appearance at Thunder­bird
was televised by three local stations.
GULICK NAMED STATE
NAFSA REPRESENTATIVE
Dr. Robert L. Gulick, Jr. has been
named Arizona State Representative for
the National Association for Foreign
Student Affairs. His affiliation with
NAFSA dates back more than fifteen
years to the time when he taught Eng­lish
as a Second Language in North
Africa.
SIBLEY RECEIVES
ALFRED KNIGHT AWARD
GEHRY OGDEN SIBLEY, a native of
Topeka, Kansas, received the December
1973 Alfred Knight Scholarship Award
for excellence in scholastic achievement.
Gerry attended Wichita State Univer­sity,
and received a BSAE and MSAE in
Engineering from the University of
Kansas. He is the son of Mr. Lorin E.
Sibley, 1740 Moundview Drive, Topeka,
Kansas.
FORMER THUNDERBIRD PRE
GUEST PROFESSOR AT
I RAN INSTITUTE
Former Thunderbird President, Dr. Ar­thur
L. Peterson, spent the Fall '73
semester as a guest professor at the Iran
Novin Institute of Political Science in
Tehran. Dr. Peterson is Chairman of the
Political Science Department at Ohio
Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
The Petersons' son, Jon Martin, spent
several weeks in Washington, D.C. work­ing
in Senator William Saxbe's office,
and during the summer months he
assisted in the management of his uncle's
sapphire mine near Helena, Montana .
Last Fall, the rest of the Peterson family
(Connie, Ingrid, Donna and Becky) en­joyed
a six weeks' visit to Greece, J eru­salem
and Tehran.
DAVE CAMPBELL
SUFFERS STROKE
JOHN DAVID CAMPBELL, who r etired
in 1971 and one of Thunderbird's most
popular professors, suffered a stroke in
December and was hospitalized in Phoe ­nix
for several weeks. In January, the
Campbell's daughter, Mrs. J ohn Llewel­lyn,
moved Dave and Verna to Louis­ville,
Kentucky where he has been
hospitalized since his arrival. We know
that the Campbells would enjoy hearing
from their Thunderbird friends and may
be contacted in care of Mrs. John
Llewellyn, 990 Alta Vista Road, Louis­ville,
KY 40205."
In recognition of Dave's years of devoted
service to Thunderbird, the professorial
chair sponsored by the Scaife Family
Charitable Trust has been named the
John David Campbell Chair of Ameri­can
Business.
ABC FEATURES
DECOLA REPORT
One of the ABC NEWS CLOSEUP fea­tures
in February was a report on
"Women in Prison" produced and di­rected
by JOE DeCOLA, a 1961 Thun­derbird
graduate.
The documentary was a 60-minute tele­vised
report on institutions in Ohio,
California and West Virginia, where
women inmates were filmed and inter­viewed
during work and recreation
periods.
Joe comments: "Prison practices de­humanize
and there is a lack of real
rehabilitation programs. We examine
whether the system of women's incar­ceration
should be changed or even
abolished ." Included in the film were
views from prison officials and a report
on a community-correction facility in
Des Moines, Iowa.
One of Joe's earlier efforts was "Mis­sion
to Yenan", which ran on NBC a
week prior to President Nixon's China
trip and received excellent reviews.
Since that time he has made a number
of documentary films.
ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AT THUNDERBIRD?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN ALUMNI EDUCATIONAL COUNSELOR?
We want to take this opportunity to express publicly our appreciation to the
many alumni who participate in our campus recruiting activities. Last fall, we placed
representatives on 155 campuses, at which time contact was made with 1,292 students,
in addition to 583 faculty and staff members. For this spring.. we are attempting to
place representatives on about 60 campuses. This intensive activity, which is by far
the largest graduate school recruiting activity of its kind in the United States, is
possible because of the participation of faculty and staff members, current students,
and esj3ec-ially alumni. Our alumni representatives made approximately 60% of our
campus visits, whereas students account for about 15% of the visits, faculty and staff
handle around 25%.
T.here are about 250 Alumni Educational Counselors who work with us actively
in this respect. As we all know, however, our alumni are mobile and have many
demands placed on their time in pursuit of their business obligations. For this reason,
we are frequently in a position of not having enough Alumni Educational Counselors
in a given area right at the time when we need help. Therefore, we would very much
like to have additional alumni volunteers, especially in large campus population
districts, such as the Boston-New York City area, the Milwaukee-Chicago-Detroit
area, and the San Francisco-Los Angeles area. If you feel that your professional
obligations would allow your spending one day in the fall and one day in the spring
each- year to visit a campus on our behalf, please write to me as soon as possible to
offer )Lour services.
Aside from these official Alumni Educational Counselors, there are of course
many meFe of you who occasionally counsel students or who disseminate information
about the School. Since you are not on our active AEC mailing list, it must be
difficult to keep abreast of the many developments on our campus. For this reason,
we would like to give you a brief summary of our status. )
ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT BODY COMPOSITION After our record en­rollment
of 874 students last fall, it was decided to restrict enrollment this spring to
approximately 780 students. }i:ox: this reason, in October we stopped accepting appli­cations
for the spring. Although the final count has not been determined at the time
this report is made, it appears that our spring enrollment will be approximately 777
students. Women should account for about 9% of the enrollment, and students from
other countries should represent approximately 18% of the enrollment. It appears
that the average age will be 26% years. About 32% of the American males are
veterans; about 35% of the students are married. As far as undergraduate majors
are conce.rned, between 35% and 40% are in Business Administration, Economics,
and related subjects. Political Science/ Government represent about 15-18% of the
student body, and languages have equal representation.
FAOULTY SIZE· Of the 76 faculty members, 60 are full time, whereas 16 are
part time.
STANDARDS OF ACOEPTANCE Our basic requirements are that an applicant
hold a bachelor's degree or higher from. an accredited institution and a grade point
average of 2.5 or better. Experience or accomplishments subsequent to undergraduate
work are also considered by the Admissions Committee.
APPLICATION DEADLINES There are no deadlines for general applications,
although it is advisable to tell prospective students that they should file applications
with us at least six months in advance of the semester of preference. (We turned
down approximately 130 new applications for this spring semester, back in October.)
At no time can we guarantee that the student can be accepted · for any particular
semester. On the other hand, there are deadlines for scholarship or assistantship
applications. In such cases, all supporting documents should be received here no later
than April 1 for the fall semester or summer session, and no later than November 1
for the spring semester.
SUMMER SESSION The summer session program has proven to be highly
beneficial to the School and a-lk students ·ctmcerned. Last summer, we had 443 enrolled,
of which 40 were in the Guadalajara program. Ror this corning summer, we are
attempting to restrict enrollment to 440 on this campus plus another 60 in Guadala­jara.
Students using the summer session can complete the program in 12 months;
and it does not matter to s whether the student enters in the spring, summer or fall.
WINTERIM The winterim session running from January 2 to January 25 is
geared basically to continuing students who want to take up to four credit hours of
work, either for credit or for improving a grade in a given course. We have just
completed our second winterim, with an enrollment of 330 students. While it is
possible for a student to ent er in the winterim, we do not encourage this practice,
because of the extreme concentration of the course work and the limitation of
courses offered.
~ Tuition is now $1,100 and various miscellaneous fees amount to $125
per semester. The cost of lodging on cam pus is either $215 or $175 for a single
student, and eIther $450 or $400 for a married couple per semester depending on
choice of accommodations. Q course, a person who lodges on can';pus must also
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board on campus, and the cost forboar. t is $400 per person per semester. Books
and supplies should cost each student al50ut $100 per semester. If you take all of
these costs and throw in a little extra for personal expenses, it means that each
single student will spend approximately $2,100 per regular semester (although some­what
less during a summer session), if he lives on campus. A married couple living
on campus will spend about $3,000 for everything each semester.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION The same basic requirements as out­lined
on pages 63-64 of the Bulletin still pertain, although these are subject to modi­fication.
Each student must complete 48 credit hours of work here on campus includ­ing
15 hours in the Department of Modern Language, 9 hours in the Department of
International Studies and 15 hours in the Department of World Business. Those
students who have already met some of these minimum requirements before entering
the School can obtain waivers on such requirements. Those students who enter the
program without meeting any of the minimum specified requirements will have only
nine elective hours in the total program. The average is 12 to 15 elective hours.
Waivers apply, of coul'se, to subject matter only. All students must complete 48
semester hours of work, except those who are in the position of transferring into our
program with up to a maximum of 6 credit hours with a grade of B or better taken
at an accredited institution, in subjects relating to our curriculum.
SUNG KYUN KWAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM We have a working arrange­ment
with Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, Korea, whereby some of our
students might take up to 12 semester hours of work on that campus, and whereby
some of their students might be able to transfer up to 12 semester hours of work
into our program, leading to the Master of International Management degree. There
is also some exchange of faculty members.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM A program
was initiated with Southern Methodist University this past fall, whereby students
can earn a joint MIM-MBA degree by taking 30 hours of work here and 30 hours at
SMU, requiring two years for the joint degree.
NEW COURSES Several new courses were introduced this spring, and more are
planned for the fall. 0'f particular interest is the addition of Chinese (Mandarin)
language, starting the fall semester, 1974. Some of the new courses introduced this
spring are: IS-414 Contemporary Communist China; IS-427 Economic History of
Western Europe; IS-438 Inter-American Relations; IS-475 Advanced International
Relations; IS-582 Political Modernization. Some of the new courses offered in the
Department of World Business are: WB-421 Managerial Finance; WB-432 Production
and Operations Management-Systems and Controls; WB-440 Guidelines in Worldwide
Operations; WB-452 Sales Management and Retailing; WB-453 Marketing Research­Buyer
Behavior; WB-463 American Business Systems.
PLACEMENT The one point we continually emphasize is that our Career
Service Center is one of the most active in the country. The student receives group
and personal counsel from the day he arrives and a most effective program has been
developed over the years. Representatives from approximately 100 to 150 organiza­tions
visit campus each year to recruit students, and the Center is in communication
with hundreds of other organizations in an effort to lead our graduates to the right
professional goal. Approximately 60 % of the last three graduating classes had offers
at the time of graduation, and most of these students had multiple offers at that
time. In view of the national economic picture this is a reasonably healthy position to
be in. In the final analysis, however, it is the student's own efforts and career
preparation that makes it possible for him to find his spot in the business world . Our
School does not and cannot guarantee an individual a job.
FRANK JACKLE HAS THE FLOOR at Gyger
retirement party.
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John J. Arthur, Registrar
and College Relations Officer
OLDTIMERS AT THUNDERBIRD - (left to
right) Fred Gyger, P'aul Wilson, Larry Finney,
and Berger Erickson.
. trGER RETIRES
FRED GYGER, Superintendent of Build­ing
and Grounds, was honored at a re­tirement
party on November 1st in the
Key Man Lounge. Fred's career dates
back to the days when Thunderbird was
a pilot training center.
Former Thunderbird President, Arthur
L. Peterson, once called Fred the "Magi­cian
at Thunderbird" because he some­how
managed to keep our old World
War II structures in remarkably good
condition. His ingenuity, creativity, de­votion
and just plain hard work were
combined to not only maintain, but to
improve the beauty and serviceability
of the campus.
As a token of appreciation for his ser­vices
the School presented Fred with a
handsome watch, and the staff and
faculty gave him a SUbstantial cash gift
to be used in the purchase of a portable
work shop for his home.
TALK ABOUT STICK-TO-ITIVENESS! FRED
GYGER, a 28 year veteran of AIFT, TGSIM
and AGSIM, has survived seven pres,idenh,
three school names, 150 plus changes ill
personnel and more than 8,000 students.
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TOM WRIGHT FAMILY KILLED
IN PARIS CRASH
The March 3rd crash
of a Turkish jet­liner
near Orly Air­port
in France cost
the lives of an en­tire
Thunderbird
family. Killed in
the disaster were
THOMAS and FAY
WRIGHT of Lon­don,
and their three
children.
A graduate of the
Class of June 1963,
Tom was Managing
Director of the Mer­rill
Lynch-Brown Shipley Bank Ltd. in
London. He began his banking career
with Chase Manhattan Bank in July
1963, and after a training period in the
New York headquarters was assigned to
the London branch. In 1967, he became
assistant manager of that branch and
in 1968 he returned to the home office
and was appointed assistant treasurer
for the Northern' Europe and Italy Zone.
In 1969, he joined Hambros American
Bank & Trust Company in New York as
a Vice President in the Internation31
Division. In the summer of 1972 he was
named Managing Director of the Merrill
Lynch-Brown Shipley Bank Ltd. in
London, a position he held until his
death.
A native of Berkeley, California, Tom
graduated from the University of Cali­fornia
in 1956. Following graduation
from UC he was employed by the Paci­fic
Finance Corporation and later by
the Westinghouse Credit Corporation.
Fay was also a native of California and
received her degree in psychology from
the University of Oregon.
The alumni records list Tom's parents
as Mr. and Mrs. E'dward P. Wright, 1040
Park Hills, Berkeley, California. Fay's
parents are listed as Mr. and Mrs. Mc­Culloch
Campbell of 2733 Claremont
Blvd., Berkeley, California.
1955 KEY MAN DIES
P. BURKE SMITH, who attended the
Summer 1955 Key Man Course under
the sponsorship of the Proctcr & Gamble
Company, died on January 7, 1973. For
the past eight years he served as Direc­tor
of Advertising for P & G operations
in France. He is survived by his wife,
Margaret, and two children.
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THUNDERBIRDS PERISH IN SAO PAULO BANK FIRE
Marsh Williams Reic
A short circuit in a 12th floor air-conditioning system triggered a blaze in the
25-story building occupied by the First National City Bank in Sao Paulo which cost
the lives of at least 220 Citibank personnel including three Thunderbird graduates­L.
CODY MARSH, WILLIAM F. WILLIAMS and PAULO REIS.
Both Cody and Bill had spent their entire business careers with Citibank.
Cody, who died of asphyxiation, joined the bank after graduating in June 1955
and at the time of his death was the assistant controller of the 50 percent-owned
Banco Crefisul de Investimento. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. L. Cody Marsh
of 2906 East Waverly, Tucson, Arizona 85716; his wife Carol, two sons and a daughter.
Bill, a January 1961 graduate met his wife, the former KAREN GUSTAFSON,
at Thunderbird. He joined the bank shortly after graduating and at the time of his
death was General Manager of the Sao Paulo branch. He died. in a fall from the 20th
floor of the building. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. W. D. Williams, 4518 North
38th, Phoenix, 85018; his wife Karen, a son and two daughters.
Karen and Carol plan to remain in Sao Paulo and may be reached through the
First National City Bank, Caixa Postal 8888, Sao Paulo.
The third Thunderbird lost in the disaster was Paulo Baptista Da Silva Reis, a
member of the August 1972 Class. Paulo joined the Bank in the Fall of 1972 and was
in the management trainee program. He is survived by his wife, and his mother, Mrs.
Irene Da Silva, Rua Marechal Mascarenhas de Morais 225/901, Rio de Janeiro.
DEATH OF 1948 GRADUATE
EUGENE J. SLADKY, a native of Chi­cago,
passed away on December 24, 1973,
in his Lake Shore Drive apartment from
an apparent heart attack. He had been
in ill health for several months.
For a time after graduating from Thun­derbird
in June 1948, Gene was em­ployed
by the A. G. McClurg Company
of Chicago, and later became a copy­writer
for an Illinois based publishing
house. He joined Holtzman-Kain Adver­tising
Agency in 1969.
Gene had never married. He is survived
by six aunts and uncles and a nephew,
Richard Sladky, of 4612 North Sayre
Avenue, Harwood Heights, IL 60656.
Services were held at Svec & Sons
Funeral Home in Berwyn, Illinois, with
his uncle, Mr. Frank Kostka, officiating.
Cremation followed the services.
HABER DIES OF LEUKEMIA
LELAND EUGENE HABER, Class of
February 1951, and a resident of Colo­rado
Springs, Colorado, died on January
19th, 1973 of Leukemia.
Lee, as he was known to his many
friends, retired from the United States
Air Force in 1965 with the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel. In September 1966
he entered Federal Civil Service at
NORAD, from which he retired only
three months before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Anne, of
1433 Laurette Drive, Colorado Springs
80909; two sons, Thomas, a student at
the University of Colorado in Boulder,
and Michael, a junior in High School.
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ROBERT P. FORTUNE '47 DIES . ;'3ill and Phyllis moved to the Bahamas
- several years ago where he is Director
ROBERT P . FOR- of the J. S. Johnson Insurance Company.
TUNE., President of Following Phyllis' death Bill suffered a
Mid-American In- heart attack and was hospitalized in the
ternational Corpora- Miami Heart Institute for several weeks.
tion, died at his In- He has returned to his position on a
dianapolis home on limited schedule.
September 30th. He
had been president
of the export-import
firm for the past
thirteen years.
He was donor of the
Fortune-Fry Laboratory of the Indiana­polis
Center for Advanced Research at
Indiana-Purdue University. He also sup­ported
the Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indiana University and Cornelia Cole
Fairbanks Hospital.
He was a graduate of Lawrenceville
(N.J.) Academy and attended Princeton
and Purdue Universities. He was a June
1947 graduate of Thunderbird.
He was a board member of the Univer­sity
Club, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Hos­pital
and Flynn Houses Inc., of Indiana­polis.
He was a member of the Athletic
Club, Woodstock Club, Dramatic Club,
Circle Club, Princeton Club of New
York City and the Windemere Island
Club at Eleuthera, Bahamas.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps
during World War II and received the
Distinguished Flying Cross with three
clusters and the Air Medal.
An editorial in The Indianapolis Star
says: "No one person can possibly know
all the good Robert (Pete) Fortune did
for his fellow man. There is a record of
sizeable charitable contributions, service
to his country as a distinguished flyer
in World War II, a key role in the
establishment of Fairbanks hospital and
a quiet but effective role at Trinity
Episcopal Church."
"But Pete Fortune did a lot more than
that for individuals. He was a charming
person and that charm must have car­ried
over into the little-known but all­hours
help he gave to members of the
Alcoholics Anonymous ... Pete Fortune
never turned down a call whatever the
hour. The help he gave remains in the
hearts and minds of those he helped.
They and all of those who knew him are
thankful for a life of unusual service."
Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth,
of 4567 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis,
Indiana; a son, Dr. Peter Fortune of
Harvard University; two daughters, Mrs.
Peter M. Thompson of Bellevue, Wash­ington;
and Miss Carroll Wild of In­dianapolis;
two brothers and five grand­children.
DEATH OF PHYLLIS RUSH
Phyllis Rush, wife of Bill Rush of the
Class of February 1957, died suddenly
at their Nassau home on June 27th fol­lowing
a brief illness. Their daughter
Karen was with her at the time.
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We know that Bill would appreciate
hearing from his many Thunderbird
friends and can be reached at P.O. Box
N8337, Nassau.
HERBERT HANSEN
VI,CTIM OF CANCER
Herbert C. Hansen,
43, died on Septem­ber
4th at a Los
Angeles hospital fol­lowing
an illness
of several months.
Death was attrib­uted
to cancer of the
liver and pancreas.
A native of Keno­sha,
Wisconsin, he
was a graduate of
Beloit College, and
a June 1956 gradu­ate
of Thunderbird. He also held a mas­ter
of arts degree from Northwestern
University and had completed training
in business management at Boston Uni­versity.
He was employed by the North America
Insurance Company following gradua­tion
from Thunderbird and served with
that company in England, The Nether­lands
and in Spain. He later joined the
Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he
coordinated the bank's services to the
insurance industry, and became a Vice
President in 1968.
In 1969 he established his own company
in Los Angeles, offering financial con­sulting
services to the insurance in­dustry.
Long an active Lutheran layman, he was
chairman of the board of pensions,
chairman of the committee on land
acquisition and management and chair­man
of the department of church ex­tension,
the Division of American
Missions, and of the American Lutheran
Church. He was also chairman of the
task force for the formation of the
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries of South­ern
California. He had been a member
of the Lutheran Brotherhood Board of
Directors since 1967.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila, a
son Clark (who was born at Thunder­bird),
and three daughters, Krista,
Claudia and Karla of 1551 Merriman
Drive, Glendale, California 91202.
'~CANN '65 CHAIRMANS
MERICAN FORTNIGHT­HONG
KONG
DON McCANN, Operations Manager for
Kodak (Far East) Ltd., was the 1973
Chairman of the "American Fortnight"
in Hong Kong.
The biggest trade promotion ever under­taken
in Hong Kong by an overseas
country was staged in October 1973.
There had been exhibitions many times
before, but this was the first carried
out Colony-wide. Throughout 14 days,
some 200 companies with United States
associations promoted American-made
consumer products and services through
over 500 retail and other outlets.
A conservative estimate is that spending
on the Fortnight by agents, importers,
distributors, banks, shipping companies,
airlines, retailers and the American
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
totaled HK$1 million, and that depart­ment
stores and supermarkets alone in­ventoried
more than $15 million of extra
products above their normal purchasing
especially for the promotion.
American Fortnight was an imaginative
commercial venture geared to (a) take
the market advantage of the improved
price situation stemming from the de­valuation
of the U.S. dollar (b) help
contribute towards solving America's
balance-of-payments problem, and (c)
to further boost U.S.-Hong Kong busi­ness
relations.
The American Fortnight venture is the
result of more than 20 months of plan­ning
which began with a suggestion at
a meeting of the American Chamber of
Commerce in Hong Kong that it was the
time to promote American-made con­sumer
products and services.
What is particularly impressive is that
the program was an involvement of the
entire American Community including
the American Women's Association,
Hong Kong International School, the
American Club, Servicemen's Guides
Association, the Little League, the U.S.
Navy and the United States Information
Service.
Don was assigned to the Hong Kong
operations of Kodak in 1966 and has
resided there since that time.
8UPPOR'P YOUR
ALUJlf~NI FUND!
MALL YOUR CHECK
TODAY!
·~S§OC:l.~TrrON e 'WS •
ROKAHR '47 RECEIVES
SO. CALIFORNIA ALUMNUS
OF THE YEAR AWARD
JACK ROKAHR,
who has spent his
entire career in the
field of international
market develop­ment,
received the
1973 SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA A­LUMNUS
OF THE
YEAR AWARD at
the November meet­ing
in Los Angeles.
A graduate of the University of Nebras­ka
and a member of Thunderbird's first
graduating class, he joined E. R. Squibb
& Son International in 1949 and spent
several years in Southeast Asia as a
Special Representative.
In 1954, he joined Mead Johnson Inter­national
and was subsequently assigned
to Lima, Peru, as South America
Regional Manager. He traveled in 66
countries making market studies and
promoting Squibb and Mead Johnson
lines.
Jack joined the U.S. Department of
Commerce Field Office in Los Angeles
in 1962, and since that time has been
primarily engaged in the implementa­tion
of the National Export Expansion
Program in the 10 Southern California
counties. He has been instrumental in
the development of many export con­ferences
and seminars in that area. He
is currently Assistant to the Director of
the Los Angeles Field Office.
In 1962, at the invitation of the UCLA
Business Extension Department, he de­veloped
a course in Fundamentals of
Export Trade. He taught this course for
ten years, finally retiring in 1972. Some
500 students during that time had the
benefit of his expertise and experience.
Jack is considered one of the finest in­structors
in Southern California and is
in much demand as a lecturer. He is
widely known in international circles
and enjoys a wide and excellent repu­tation
in the international business com­munity.
In accepting the Award, Jack reminisced
about the early days at Thunderbird
(which apparently were anything but
dull) and recalled many of his class­mates
of that era.
The November 10th meeting of the
Southern California Alumni Chapter,
held at La Villa Taxco, was attended by
approximately 80 alumni and guests.
Paul Wilson, Thunderbird's Armco Pro­fessor
of Accounting for International
Management, was also honored at the
meeting. Unfortunately, Paul was unable
to attend and his award (a desk plaque)
was accepted by President William
Voris.
The Southern California group will hold
the customary June meeting. To assure
that newcomers in the area will be in­cluded
in the invitation list we suggest
that they contact the Chapter President,
Larry Lipsher - Telephone: 789-7505 or
462-2088. Senorita de Noronha, a long­time
Thunderbird favorite, has promised
to be on hand for this meeting.
ENGLAND GROUP HOLD
GET ACQUAINTED MEETING
The ENGLAND Thunderbirds held a
get acquainted cocktail party on Friday
evening, March 15th, at the American
Club in London. Michael Adams, assis­tant
manager of the London branch of
The Royal Bank of Canada, was in
charge of the planning. More on this in
the next issue of THE THUNDERBIRD.
CHICAGO ALUMNS FETE
PRESIDENT
We have BOB BEAN and BOB JOHN­SON
to thank for the last minute "round
up" of the CHICAGO area Thunder­birds
to honor President Voris when he
was in the City to attend the February
World Trade Conference.
Forty plus alumni and guests met in the
conference room of the Chicago Asso­ciation
of Commerce and Industry for
an informal cocktail party, including
first and second generation Thunder­birds-
the KEN MILLERS '49 and son,
RANDY '73.
The get-together stimulated interest in
future gatherings and we hope to see
a reorganization of the once active Chi­cago
alumni chapter. There is some talk
of a summer meeting. If you would like
to help with plans we urge you to get
in touch with Bob J ohnson-telephone:
(312) 358-6464 (Address: Taft Avenue,
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008.
CHICAGO THUHDER8IRDS-(left to right)
Bill Davis '68, Lestie Shearer '66, Carof An­derson
'70, Bob Begani '6,7, President Voris,
Johannes Combee '7'2, Chris Topoulos '7'2,
Chip Wood '65, Udo Sietens '70.
THUHDERBIRDS FROM THE AIFT DAYS
pose with President Voris: (left to right) Jim
Kindelin '54, President Voris, Bob Johnson
'59, and Frank Krescanko '5,7.
COSTA RICA THUNDERBIRDS
ENTERTAIN BOARD CHAIRMAN
On December 15th, the COSTA RICA
alumni hosted a luncheon in honor of
Mr. James E. Patrick, Chairman of the
Thunderbird Board of Directors. Mr.
Patrick was visiting the country at the
invitation of the President of Costa Rica.
He reports that the luncheon (organized
by Jim Dahlstrom '58) was a tremen­dous
success and that he enjoyed meet­ing
the area alumni, who were very
enthusiastic about the recent develop­ments
at Thunderbird.
FASCHING IN MUNICH
The EUROPEAN ALUMNI CHAPTER
planned to hold its annual Fasching in
Munich weekend on February 22/ 23
and 24th. We know that the meeting
was the usual success and shall report
more on it in the next issue of THE
THUNDERBIRD.
WASHINGTON D.C. ALUMS HOLD
FIRST DECEMBER-FEST
The Bavarian Restaurant at 727 11th
Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C. was
the scene of the first DECEMBER-FEST
hosted by the D.C. Group. The December
7th meeting brought out some thirty
Thunderbirds, wives and friends. Hon­ored
guests were Thunderbird President
William Voris, and Mrs. Barton Kyle
Yount, widow of the School's founder.
Election of officers was held with Henry
Avalos '70 being voted into the Presi­dency,
Eugene Castle '71, Vice President,
and Tom Brewer '61, Secretary-Treas­urer.
The retiring President, Steve Conger '50,
did a marvelous job of reorganizing the
D.C. Chapter, and we hope that it will
continue to be a success.
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PRESIDENT VORIS and MRS. YOUNT VISIT AT WASHINGTON
MEETING
HANDSOME GROU,P - PRESIDENT VORIS,
DICK BELL '64 and MAL LINDSTROM '47
THERE WAS MUCH SOCIAlLIZING AND REMINISCING AT DECEMBER-FEST
LIBERIA THUNDERBIRDS
CONVENE
Seventeen LIBERIA alumni and wives
held a dinner meeting a few months ago
at the Chateau du Bois in Monrovia.
The meeting was attended by: HENRY
CONWAY '55 (President, International
Trust Company ); LOUIS FORD '56
(United Liberia Rubbe r Company);
MOSES and LOIS HARRIS '70 (Bank
of Monrovia); DAVE KOMAROMI '68
and CHARLEY and MARY JANE ST.
CLAIR '56 (United States Trading Com­pany);
JOHN and TWEE SEELINGER
'68 and DAVE and VICKI SCHNELLER
'69 (Chase Manhattan Bank); JOE and
DIANE LONGO '70 and MAMADEE and
GENEVIEVE DORBOR '72 (American
International Group) and MARV and
GAIL DOLE '67 (Liberia Tractor and
Equipment Company) .
Since that time the Dave Schnellers
have r eturned to Colorado, where he is
pursuing his Masters and Vicki is t each­ing;
and the Charley St. Cla!rs are cur­rently
residing in the Phoemx area .
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(Left to right) Lois Harris, Moses H~rris, Henry Conway, Louis F'ord, Dave Komaromi, Gail
Dote, Charley St. Clair, John Longo, Mamadee Dorbor, Diane Longo.
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SOME SAID IT COULON
BUT WE DID IT!
DONE-In
four short years Thunderbird has accomplished
Construction of Library-Alumni-Placement Center
Remodeling of the Auditorium
Remodeling of the Book Store and Post Office
MAIL YOUR CHECK TODAY BE GENEROUS
Construction of the West Apartments
The campus has a beautiful new entrance, the tennis courts
and drives have been resurfaced, the pub is in operation,
the student lounge has had a face-lifting, the infirmary and
l1usiness office have been moved into newly remodeled
quarters, and the chapel dedication is scheduled for May 1st.
ALL THIS HAS BE,EN ACCOMPLISHED
BUT
WE STILL HAVE THE SAME OLD DINING HALL
We need $25,000 or more
To complete the Dining Hall Project in '74
PLEASE, HELP!
INCLUDE YOUR GIFT MATCHING FORM
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FUND RAISING I '" I '
1973 ALUMNI GIFTS TOTAL $25,41 7
Thanks to the loyal support of our alumni and friends the 1973 ALUMNI FUND totaled $25,417, This is, by far, the highest
figure in the history of Thunderbird. The total number of con tributors tripled and the average size gift rose to $20. Company
support under the Matching Gift Program also increased. While it is especially pleasing to note that many of our alumni continue
each year as donors, it is very disappointing to report that in spite of the increase in giving less than 9% of our total alumni
body donated during the year. Through a special appeal to the non-givers (scheduled for May 1974) we hope to double this per­centage
by the end of the year. If we accomplish this we can complete the Dining Hall Renovation in 1974 and select a new project.
PLEASE JOIN THE "HONOR LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS", THE "CENTURY" OR "DIAMOND CLUB", BY SENDING IN
YOUR CONTRIBUTION TODAY. Remember your gift is tax-deductible and that many of our employing companies participate
in a Gift Matching Program. If your company has such a program PLEASE include the form with your donation.
During the period from October 15, 1973 to February 15, 1974, the following alumni, friends of Thunderbird, and companies
contributed to the Alumni Fund:
Joseph Klein '47
William Henley '48
Robert Feagles '51
Howard Hoops '51
Kara Dunn Armstrong '56
William Rush '57
Irwin Marks '47
Lee Haviland '47
James Boyce '47
James Hopwood '47
Charles Ritter '47
George Walters '47
Harold Kalmans '47
Robert Michael '47
William Reed '47
John Henson '48
John Warner '48
John Nazro '48
Werner Diehl '48
Donald Len ertz '48
Robert L. Bean '48
Allan Zimberoff '48
Robert MacCachran '48
Keith Rowe '49
Donald Groves '49
Joseph Viner '49
David Clay '49
Irving Taylor '49
Samuel Coddington '49
Carl Perkins '49
Robert Walker '50
Alvin Robbins '50
Dale F . Lucal '50
Sterling Boyce '50
James Clarke '50
Craig Myers '50
John Ingmundson '50
Clifford Bevens '.50
William Harris '50
Jack Worth '50
Kenneth Randall '50
Virgil Heidebrink '50
Duane Mowry '50
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DIAMOND CLUB
(Contributions of $500 or more)
John Schantz '66
CENTURY CLUB
(Contributions of $100-$499)
Louis Pacini '58
Terrence McGrath '59
Linwood Reed '59
John Taylor '60
David Sullivan '63
William Pennel '6 4;
David Chen '65
Ralph Lambert '66
Alexander Nalle '66
Michael Moorman '67
BIas Casares '67 ./
Victor Fontaine '67 V"
HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS
Fred Voorhees '50
Harry B. Turner '51
John Pidcock '51
Barker Bates '51
H. Theodore Withers '52
Richard Packard '52
Ralph Kelly '52
Walter Kelley '52
Donald Coleman '52
Hilary Wilson '52
Brayton Lincoln '52
Norman Blackie '52
Andrew Vais '52
Boye De Mente '53
Charles White '53
J ean Fortreide Burns '53
Margaret Dougherty '53
Richard Enochson '53
Harry Tiber '53
Edward Campeau '53
Gerritt Vander Ende '54
Charles Kellar '54
Richard Stone '54
William Gale '54
Ray Lopez '55
Arthur Ortiz '55
George Whitlow '55
Richard Ranney '55
William Wassmann '55
William Ryan '55
Winthrop Wyman '56
Harry Laubach '56
David Brown '56
Joseph Lockman '56
William Rodgers '56
Douglas Buckmaster '57
Virgil F. Carlson '57
Norman Fellers '57
Frank Wallis '57
Timothy Reed '57
Thayer Toner '57
Earl Oliver '57
Gene Arvidson '57
Charles Maggio '57
William McKaig '57
Robert Edsall '57
Jack Ryder '58
Fred sm '58
Pieter Vos '58
Robert Laport '58
Russell Bruno '58
Frank Pinckard '58
Wayne Fischer '58
Stanford Wilson '59
Kent Draigh '59
John Bogert '59
George Reeves '59
George Martin '59
Andrew Furlan '59
Daniel Jacobsen '59
Robert Hamilton '59
George Blake '59
Harry Mallott '59
Stanley Webb '59
John Varri '59
Larry Gilbert '59
Robert Linsenmayer '59
J erome Gaarder '59
William L. Lyons Brown '60
Clint Hopson '60
Elwood Schneider '60
Henry Windsor '60
Donn Davis '60
Robert Kidney '60
Paul Donnelly '67
John Harriman '68 ../
Kurn Kruger '69 ..-­Joseph
Chamalian '70
Howard Keefe KM '61
William Lindberg KM '61
David Johnson KM '61
Arthur Misner '60
William Weber '60
Robert Heinemann '60
Rodolfo Delgado '60
Wallace Life '60
David Bravender '60
William Nystrom '60
Stewart Hume '60
John & Val Keiser '60
Malcolm Goode '60
Robert J . Walker '60
Craig Starkey '60
William Zimmerman '60
Robert Garrison '61
J. Steven Cole '61
Mark Moriarty '61
Martin Taylor '61
Charles Workman '61
Richard Hale '61
~eighton Willgerodt '61
Verlyn Miller '61
Osmun Way '61
David Mayo '61
Stephen Uchida '61
J erome Lewis '61
Roland Rayment '62
Carlos Cortes '62
Donald Madich '62
J ack Beldon '62
Titus Trumbower '62
Morris Feldman '62
Thomas Surrency '62
Stephen Heiner '62
Wallis Sanborn '62
Robert Breau '62
Theodore Smith '63
J ames Riddle '63
Robert Lambrix '63 '67 Charles Arndt '6. James Wood '71
Donald Murphy '63 Ja Rooney '67 ,- Damon Kroh '69 ' Brain Derby '71
Douglas Pfaff '63 Donald Bradford '67 Marshall Malden '69 Gary Grassen '71
Beatrice Brown May '63 Dallas Archibald '67/' Michael Wiley '69 Peter McBride '71
Ronald Burkard '63 Andrew Donnelly '67 Robert Coyne '69 Harold Gunn '71
Ronald Courtney '63 Edward Reading '67 Terry Chamberlain '70 Keith Sanders '71
Robert Williamson '63 J ohn Moynier '67 /' Alban Schuele '70 Neil Kleinecke '71
Gibson Durden '63 J ohn Hale '67 /, Stephen Nason '70 Peter Hrebec '71
Stanley Zadronick '63 David Fischer '67 George Williams '70 /' Charles Malone '71
J ohn Daliere '64 Carl McKinney '67 Philip Wilken '70/ Mark O~ Malley '71
William MacKenzie '64 Eddie Poe '67 Peter Kingman '70'/ Edward Schlachter '71
Leonard Babineau '64 William Brown '67 Ketil Osland '70 Jon Dwinell '71
Louis Pi-Sunyer '64 James Landis '68 James Lyon '70 Jay Marks '71
John Baker '64 Joseph Gury '68"'- Robert Ballantyne '70 Thomas Tegart '72
Norman Wilson '64 James Southern '68 Marvin Hancock '70 James Boyce '72
Jan Wells '64 Robert Baldwin '68 William Luke '70 /' Soren Christensen '72
Claus Morch '64 Martha Thorne Mirabel '68 George Wenz '70 Lee Smith '72
Michael Sussman '64 Robert Martin '68 John Simon '70 Grier Cooper '72-
Patrick Hillary '64 Algis Vosylius '68 Malinda Elliott '70 William Broadfoot '72
Frederick Bannier '65 Roger Young '68 James Will '70 Elton Brown '72
Mary Amthor Giese '65 John Unruh '68 Joseph Gelsomino '70 Ralph Carp '72 ~
Craig Gladen '65 Nabil Abu-Nawar '68 ,/ Angel Denegri '70 -- Stephen Mahood '72
Timothy Titus '65 Brent Sanford '68 Richard Lannin '70 Kent Gregory '72
George Dykes '65 Timothy Walker '68 /' Bruce Duston '70 Dominique Ablondi '72 .--'
John Shepherd '65 Roy Malkin '68 James Baker '70 Thomas McCoy '72
Robert Gravel '65 William Mattison '68 Hunt Cleveland '70 Hugo Wolter '72
Robert Pool '65 Emil Joost '68 Michael McTigue '70 Peter Anderson '72
Carl Bowler '66 Thomas Lester '68 Stephen Wright '70 ./ David Young '72
Frank Forque '66 Ben Amaroui '68 ./ Larry Edstrom '70 William Borlaug '72
Peter Baer '66 Robert Chapman '68 Libby Ginnetti '70 Henry Slessinger '72
J. William Lee '66 Michael Pierce '68 ./ Udo Seitens '70 Edward Auble '72 -
Jon Dyer '66 Charles Barringer '68 Roland Willetts '70 /' William LeBow '72
Thomas Duggan '66 Antone Korinek '69 John Brady '70 Robert Wedwick '72
Robert Norfleet '66 James Coil '69 Alexander Naughton '70 Marc Files '72
Charles Platt '66 Loog Kleinbussink '69 Gus Nixon '70 James Echle '72
David Beasley '66 John Heard '69 /' Jeffrey Davis '70 Michael Kavanaugh '72 /'
Donald Tang '66 John Barelli '69 Michael Perren '70 Robert Peglar '72
Kenneth Holbrook '66 Charles Hazen '69 '- William Perez '70 Gary Pacific '72 /
Joseph Thompson '66 Bruce Michener '69 Gary Staggs '70 Dana Dorr '73 ./
Michael Bennis '66 Marvin DeVoe '69 Victor Haupt '71 Raif Saghieh '73 /
James Richardson '66 Michael Murphy '69- Charles Murphy '71 Christopher Morrison '73
Michael Gross '66 Daniel Root '69 Robert Johnson '71 Ronald Pfafflin '73
Gerald Green '66 Stephen Hall '69 William Ryan '71 ../ Gary Miller '73
Lance Jensen '67 Roger Brown '69 Robert Marston '71 Kent McAlpin '73
Byron Johnson '67 Jeffrey Rudolph '69 Dennis Orio '71 Lucio Bianchini KM '73
Edward Kimmell '67 James Dorobiala '69 John Moore '71 William Hacker (Special)
Robert Begani '67 Michael Considine '69 Dewey Cady '71 Virginia Graham (Special)
COMPANIES CONTRIBUTING UNDER MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM
Abbott Laboratories Fund
American Can Company Foundation
American Express Foundation
American Home Products Corporation
AMF Foundation
Armco Foundation
Armstrong Cork Company
Arthur Andersen & Company Foundation
Atlantic-Richfield Foundation
Bank of America Foundation
The Bank of California
The Bank of New York
Borg-Warner Foundation, Inc.
Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation
Bucyrus-Erie Foundation, Inc.
Campbell Soup Company
The Carrier Corporaton Foundation, Inc.
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Clark Equipment Company
Continental Bank Foundation
Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
Cyprus Mines Corporation
A.B. Dick Foundation
ESB Foundation
EXXON Foundation
FMC Foundation
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
First National City Bank
Ford Motor Company
The General Electric Foundation
Getty Oil Company
Hughes Aircraft Company
Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island
International Business Machines Corporation
International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
The Johnson Wax Fund, Inc.
The Kidder Peabody Foundation
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
National Cash Register Foundation
R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.
Rockwell International
Rohm & Haas Company
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Southeast Banking Corporation
The Squibb Corporation
Sybron Corporation
Transamerica Corporation
The Young & Rubicam Foundation
BETHLEHEM STEEL DONATES $5,000 TO ALUMNI FUND
The largest single contribution to the 1973 Alumni Fund came from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation under its pro­gram
of Financial Assistance to Colleges and Universities. The donation in the amount of $5,000 resulted from the Company's
employment of Ernest Escobedo of the May 1973 Class. Ernest is undergoing Bethlehem's Loop Course, a management
trainee program.
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Appointments
PENNEL
DYKES
AVARD
BUSSE
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WILLIAM PENNEL '64 has
been named President of Vol­vo
Southwest, a Houston­based
firm which acts as
distributor of imported Volvo
automobiles for a 16-state
area and one of the company's
fi ve wholly-owned American
subsidiaries. He joined Volvo
in 1960 as general sales man­ager
and was later promoted
to field operations manager.
Bill's former spot wi th Volvo
has been filled by GEORGE
DYKES who has been with
Union Carbide International
since graduating from Thun­derbird
in June 1965. His
most recent assignment was
marketing manager for UCI
in Caracas.
JOHN W. AVARD '65, Vice
President-International of the
Ridge Tool Company, has been
elected a Director of the Com­pany.
He is headquarkred in
Elyria, Ohio.
The Board of Directors of J .
Walter Thompson Company
in New York has elected
HORST BUSSE '67 a Vice
President of the company. He
joined JWT in 1967 as an
account manager in the New
York office and was trans­ferred
to the Detroit branch
in 1968. Horst and Carleen
and their three children live
in Norwalk, Connecticut.
SCHLEGEL
FAGAN
CASSIN
KESE
ROBERT E. SCHLEGEL '68
has been appointed an assis­tant
international banking
officer of Marine Midland
Bank-New York He joined
Marine Midland in 1971 as a
management associate and
was a territor ia l assi stant in
the Latin American region of
the international banking divi­sion
since June 1972 .
BILL FAGAN, formerly Assis­tant
Manager of the Djakarta,
Indonesia , branch of First
National City Bank, has been
promoted to Senior Assistant
Manager. He is a 1970 Thun­derbird
graduate.
JOHN M. CASSIN '69 has
been promoted to vice presi ­dent
in the European regional
office of the international
banking department of Marine
Midland Bank-New York.
CARL I. KESE '70 has been
appointed an assistant inter­national
banking officer of
Marine Midland Bank-New
York. He began his career at
Midland in 1971 as a manage­ment
associate and was later
promoted to a territorial assis­tant
in the Bank's Western
European region.
AUSTIN M. SEAY '70 has
been named Ge neral Ma nager
of Mid-Gulf Stevedores, Inc.
Midgulf is a Central Gulf sub­s
idiary in Houston, Texas.
Prior to this promotion , he
had been West Gulf Opera­tions
Manager.
SEAY CUMPSTON
ERICH REICHENBACH '72
has been appointed Area Man­ager
for the new Ridge Tool
Southeast Asia sa les territory,
with responsibilities for Indo­nesia,
Singapore, Malays ia,
Thailand, Philippines, Hong
Kong and Taiwan. He is sta­tioned
in Singapore.
REICHENBACH
LEONARDS DlTCH INSURANCE
BUSINESS TO PURSUE
CAREERS IN WRITING
Although it is not recommended that
well established alumni "ditch" a lucra­tive
and satisfying occupation to gamble
on a career in writing, the W AL T
LEONARDS '49 of Phoenix did just that
and found almost immediate success and
recognition in the literary field.
Until three years ago, Walt and Phyllis
opera ted a very successful insurance
agency in the Valley, and while Phyl
had always dreamed of writing, and sold
two magazine articles some twenty years
ago, the couple had no r eal lite r a ry am­bitions
until recently.
Visitors arriving at the Leonard home,
situated on 47 acres adjacent to South
Mountain, are usually hil arious by the
time they master the bumpy drive
(appropriately dubbed the "Baja Prac­tice
Run") and see along the way the
conglomeration of debris and signs. For
example, bes ide a scoop shovel is a sign
that reads "Our First Scoop" - an old
chamber pot with "Rejection Slip De­posit"
- a rusty plow with "Who says
we ain't cultivated" and a sign by the
gallows reads "Hang one on!"
The Leonards took a chance and it has
certainly paid off. During the last three
years, the Leonard Corporation has pub­li
sh ed works in seven newspapers, 20
consumer magazines (including youth
magazines ) and 40 trade journals.
CORSON
Phyl's first novel "Prey of the Eagle"
will be released in June. It is a gothic
novel set near Mexico City in the
1880's. It was accepted by the first pub­lisher
(David McKay Co. Inc. of New
York) to whom it was submitted. Phyl
has a teenage historical novel in the
making and David McKay Co. has an
option on the second gothic novel also
underway. Walt is writing an adventure
novel set in Baja in the 1850's.
Walt is the interviewer and photo­grapher
of the team, and Phyllis is the
researcher. She comments: "We've ap­proached
free lancing as a business, not
as a romance, but with romance in our
souls. We're an odd combination. We're
very conservative, but we've always
gambled on our business."
CONTINENTAL BANK
PROMOTES TWO
Two Thunderbird graduates were re­cently
promoted by Continental Bank of
Chicago. ROBERT B. TANKERSLEY
'61, who joined the Bank in 1972 and
was elected an officer in 1973, has been
named a Vice President in the Bank's
trust department. Before joining Conti­nental,
Bob was Manager of one of the
Brazil branches of First National City
Bank.
PAUL M. WATSON '65 has been pro­moted
to a second vice president in the
international banking division. Joining
Continental in 1969, he was elected
assistant treasurer of the international
division in 1970, and named an inter-
GEORGE S. W. CUMPSTON,
f orme r National Accounts
Manager for Dart Truck
Company in Kansas City,
Missouri. has joined Manage­ment
Recruiters of Phoenix
as mine executive recruite r.
Before Tnoving to K a nsas
City, George and Eileen
spent a number of years in
Chile and Peru on assign­ments
for the Armco Com­pany.
On September I , BRAD COR­SON
'72 was assigned to a
southern Brazil sales territory
by Ridge Tool. In his new
assignment he will cover eight
Brazilian states. The Corsons
are now living in Sao Paulo.
na tional banking officer in 1971. He was
previously with the Manufacturers Han­over
Trust Company.
BOB BEAN BACK WITH
CHICAGO ASSOCIATION
ROBERT L. BEAN '48 has been reap­pointed
Director, World Trade Division
of the Chicago Association of Commerce
and Industry. He filled the post from
1956 to 1963, when he resigned and
joined the staff of Luis A. Ferre, Puerto
Rican industrialist, philanthropist and
political leader in Ponce.
He returned to Illinois in 1965 to join
the State Department of Business and
Economic Development as Coordinator,
first of special projects, then programs
in the international field . Promoting the
sale abroad of Illinois products and the
s tate as a locale for foreign-owned en­terprises,
he worked with government
and business officials, including the
consular corps of Chicago. He also re­presented
the state at trade shows in
which it participated in Japan, Brazil
and Mexico.
Bob rejoined the Association last July
as Executive Director of the Export to
Japan Trade Fair and Trade with Ja­pan
Week. He is a Director of the Inter­national
Trade Club of Chicago and the
Japan America Society of Chicago.
Bob and his wife, Alice, vacationed in
Southern Arizona over the holidays but
unfortunately, the gas shortage pre­cluded
a visit to campus.
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DORIS PAINE '47, "RESIDENT OF
FRIENDS OF THUNDERBIRD
Friends of Thunderbird, a long-nceded auxiliary to thc School, came to life in
November 1973 at the instigation of Mrs. William Voris. Organized to include both
men and women, the group consists of volunteers who work in conjunction with the
administration to provide services that are beyond the budget of the school and the
time of the faculty and staff. Many of the members are alumni or alumni-related;
others are just what the names describes - friends of Thunderbird. Meetings are
held five times during thc school year from September through May. Membership
classifications include Active ($10 a year), Associate ($25 a year), and Life ($200).
Officers for this initial year are President, Mrs. Jordan Paine; First Vice-President,
Mrs. Eugene Tompane; Second Vice-President (Membership), Mrs. Wm. Shields;
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Tom McSpadden; Liaison to the President, Mrs. Wm. Voris.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Primary project of the group has been service to the students from abroad, who
now number about 18% of the student body. In the past, individuals have provided
hospitality and friendship to some of them; Friends of Thunderbird aim to help
each man and woman leave the school not only with an academic education, but
with friends who are part of the community and an understanding of the life and
businesses in this area. Initiated at the beginning of this spring semester, individual
Friends of Thunderbird have been meeting the newcomers at Sky Harbor, providing
transportation to the school, and helping them get established in their rooms on
campus. Host families are planning a desert picnic for these students in March, and
hospitality in members' homes will continue throughout the semester.
TRADE FAIR
Second sphere of interest for FOT is the annual Trade Fair. Sponsored by the
Thunderbird Women's Club to finance a scholarship, this annual fund-raising and
informative event weighs heavily on the girls, most of whom are working wives as
well as being new to the area. The new auxiliary expects to provide man and woman
power in the form of local contact as well as help the day of the event. FOT has made
arrangements for a ride in a hot-air balloon leaving from the campus that afternoon.
The ride will be top prize in a raffle to be held that day along with exhibits, enter­tainment,
and foods.
AUCTION '75
Next year the Trade Fair will again include an auction. The call is out to all
alums to donate an item that can be sold, hopefully for a fabulous price. If you're
overseas and coming back at some time in the next year, the easy way is to bring
something home and mail it from anywhere in the States. It's your tax-deductible
contribution to the School. Address it to Trade Fair '75, Thunderbird Campus, Glen­dale,
Ariz. 85306. Be sure to include your name and address, and send it anytime in
the next year. Your receipt will be in the mail to you immediately, and our thanks
will be forever.
HOSPITALITY
When we have distinguished visitors on campus, FOil' will be on hand to aid in
planning receptions and other social events, as well as providing sightseeing and
other hospitality as may be appropriate. Since campus activities (such as classes)
sometimes interfere with student attendance at talks by some of our visitors, this
auxiliary will invite citizens of the community to share in these events, thus provid­ing
a public relations service as well as an appreciative audience.
AROUND THE WORLD
1947 TIM KING of the Department
of Health, Education and Wel­fare
in Washington, D.C. is
serving as Chief of the Facilitative
Services, Divis ion of International Ex­change
and Training, Institute of Inter­national
Studies " FLO MERVIS' 1973
itinerary included a three week visit in
Miami Beach, a week at Boltons Land­ing,
Lake Georgc and Essex on Lake
Champlain, two weeks relaxing at her
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favorite resort Valeria (near Peekskill.
New York), and a four-day ove~
Thanksgiving visit with EMILY ADA­CUSKY
and her sister in Oak Hill, New
York. After living for 35 years in the
Bronx, Flo finally purchased a co-op
apartment (with a terrace view of the
Hudson River) at 365 West 28th Street
(Apt. 9-J) in Manhattan, and says that
the welcome mat is always out at Mervis
Hacienda . SID BRAUFMAN is Vice
President-Personnel of Sperry Vickers
World Headquarters, in Troy, Michi­gan
... HAL CARPENTER, former Man­aging
Director of General Tire Company
r ran, has resigned his position and
r-drncd to the States. He was a recent
campus visitor.
1948 Two of our long lost 1948 grad­uates
have recently returned to
the mailing list-JOHN HALL,
who is a Corporate Financial Consultant
in Portland, Oregon, d.b.a. John L.
Hall & Associates, and BILL BOONE, a
civilian employee with the U.S. Army.
Bill is trying to locate his Thunderbird
roommate, JIM HEINECKE, formerly of
Long Beach, California. Anyone know­ing
Jim's whereabouts please contact
the alumni office . .. Down Mexico way
the TY COBBS of Tequisquiapan had
Thanksgiving dinner with EMILY
BROWN, former Public Relations Di­rector
at Thunderbird (who is spending
her sabbatical in Mexico), PACO and
RAQUEL GAONA, formerly of the lan­guage
department and PATRICIA
DOUGLAS, a sister of MERVIN BO­HEN,
former faculty member.
1949 CLARENCE WASSON reports
from England: "I'm still with
Citibank and am being posted
to London for up to two years where
I will be undertaking a project at one
of our affiliates, National and Grindlays
Bank Limited." ... The KEN MILLER'S
most important news for 1973 was Ken's
appointment as Operating Manager for
Sears' International headquartered in
Skokie, and son RANpy's (August '73)
position with Continental Bank in Chi­cago,
Ken and June are happily settled
at 1812-C Wildberry Drive, Glenview,
IL 60025-Telephone: (312) 729-7966 .
1950 RALPH HENRY of Bronx, New
York, made a surprise visit to
campus in January - the first
since graduating. He and his wife, Rose
Marie, were enjoying a month's vacation
in celebration of their twenty-fifth wed­ding
anniversary. Ralph is employed as
a financial investigator for the City of
New York .. BOB WALKER, Presi­dent
of The Northeastern Ohio National
Bank in Ashtabula, and his wife Jean,
also visited campus recently ... The
JERRY OLSONS of Walnut Creek, Cali­fornia,
report a very happy and success­ful
year. Jerry is kept busy as West
Coast Manager of AFIA, and has joined
the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Edith
has become an A von lady and admits
that she is her best customer.
1951 MARVIN PRISKE is Vice Pres­ident
and Company Director of
the Steiner American Corpora­tion.
Marv and his wife, Connie, and
their three children live in Salt Lake
City ... TOM BIRCH is a management
consultant with the firm of Coopcr &
Lybrand in San Francisco.
1952 LEN and LILLIAN ( DO~
LAS ) HOGENBOOM \lTit~
pre -Christmas lette r from Ho­gey's
Hill in P enns.vh ·ania: " It's 'fl aming
foliage time' in Pennsylvania. And, it's
also time to pack up our Scotty Trave l
Trailer and head back down the trail to
Florida. We 've been acti\'ely engaged in
r enovating the 100-year-old house we
bought in Weirsdale (Florida) and get­ting
in some traveling, too. Last year.
we spent eight weeks traveling through
our own Wes tern States; th is year, we
joined four other couples with tra vel
trailers to make a tour of Me xico ."
1953 CHUCK WOOD call ed fr om
New York in January to report
that there are three Thunde r­birds
working with him at Boyle-Mid­way
Interna tional in New York-DEN­NIS
HEMMING '65, PETER DE VRIES
'64 and LEN BLACK '72. Chuck is Far
East Manager for B-M ... BOB McCON­NELL
reports from a temporary address
at Budd La ke, New Jersey : "Returned
to the U.S. in July 1973 after eight and
a h alf years in France, Scotland and
England (and two months in Turkey).
Married my wife, Ellen, in England in
Februa ry 1969 and we have a son, Rob­ert
William, born in June 1972." Bob is
employed by the U.S. Government ...
DICK ENOCHSON of the Federal Sales
Division of Morton-Norwich Products
International r ecently returned from a
two-month, ten country visit to Asia.
He complains that there is never ade­quate
time for b.usiness, shopping and
pleasure, particularly in the more unique
countries, such as Laos. Bob and his
wife, Mary, and their three children r e­side
in Cast ro Va lley , California . . .
SAMMY NEBLETT, Payroll Accountant
for IBM in New York City , writes : "I
still d on 't like New York as a r esid ence,
and miss my traveling days . Travel for
me in 1973 was limited to a couple of
weeks in Florida in May-June, a long
week - end in Toronto in July, and I have
just r eturned from a wonderful jaunt
to Italy (Rome, Florence, Naples, Pom­peii
and Sorrento) and Greece. An
added attraction in Athens (at no extra
charge) was the milita ry revolt which
took over the go vernment in a bloodless
coup. It would take pages to r ecount
what I did and saw, but I was on the
go from early morning to late at ni ght
and have some 185 color prints to re­mind
me of the wonderful sights. I am
also planning another trip to Europe in
April or May '74."
1954 EARL COPPERSMITH was a
r ecent campus vi sitor and re­ported
that he is Vice Presid ent
of the Inte rnationa l Utilities of the U.S. ,
based in Philadelphia . Another sec­ond
gene ra tion Thunderbird r egis ter ed
for the Spr ing Semester-Richard Sto:1e
II, son of DICK and KATHRYN STONE
of Geneva , Switzerland. Di ck (the fir st )
is Vice President-Marketing of R. J.
Rey nolds Inte rnati onal ARNE TE­GEBO
has :io in ed the Export Divisi :m uf
the Sta-Hi & Sun Chemical Company in
KELLEY '70 REPRESENAc.PERRY
AT BRAZILIAN AIR sH!"w
ART KELLEY, Latin America Marketing Representative for
Sperry Flights Systems in Phoenix, r e presented the Company
at the fir st international aerospace show for Latin America
held in Septembe r at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Fifty companies from the U.S. and many from foreign coun­tries
exhibited avionics and airframe products at Anhembi
Park. The di splay booths were staffed by each Company's
marketing specialists.
With Art, g reeting booth visitors during the 10-day show,
were Jim Kenned y, International Marketing Manager; Enrique
Mora, a consultant from Sperry in Madrid , and Florida-based
Henry Bourne, originally from Cuba. A key resource for
g reeting vis itors unable to speak Engli sh was the Sperry
representatives' a bility to discuss the company avionics in
Portuguese and Spanish.
..
JOHN H. CRIMMINS, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, visits with
ART KELLEY (left), Sperry Marketing Representative for
Latin America , at the September aerospace show at Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Hundreds of distinguished visitors stopped during the
10-day show to see the Sperry exhibit situated in a key loca­tion
along the main aisle. (Photo courtesy of Sperry Flight
Systems, Phoenix, Arizona)
Newport Beach, California .. BILL
GALE, Assistant International Credit
Manager for Bausch and Lomb in Ro­chester,
New York, reports that his co­worker
is EPHRIAM KOJEN, August
'73 graduate.
visit from SENORITA de NORONHA
(former Thunderbird faculty member)
of Phoenix ... BILLY and NANCY
MARTIN of San Juan, Puerto Rico at­tended
the ITT Treasurers' Conference
in Munich and stopped briefly in Brus­sels,
Vienna, Paris and Madrid. Bill is
Financial Vice President, Comptroller
and Treasurer of ITT in Puerto Rico.
1955 HARLEY KELLEY has been
appointed supervisor of the es­crow
and trust departments of
the Commonwealth Land Title Insur­ance
Company in Phoenix . CHAR
(DEVINE) DUNCAN writes from Pasa­dena
, California: "WILL worked in Ta­coma
until February and then decided
to change from the wet and cold of
Washington to the twister s of Dallas,
T exas. By the fir st of June , he decided
he preferred smog so back to Pasadena.
He is working in Long Beach (if we
have gas rationing I may never see him
again). The Duncans enjoyed a winter
1956 JACK BUTEFISH made a sur­prise
visit to campus in Janu­ary.
He is a self-employed man­agement
consultant in Los Angeles, and
as a sideline has become deeply involved
in the sports world ... DOUG PARISH
is Vice President of H ydranautics, Inc.
in Goleta, California. The company
manufactures water systems for the ship
building and petroleum industries . . .
The JOHN REDDANS have returned to
the States following three years in Bra-
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zil. Still with the UNIVAC Divis ion of
Sperry, John will be working out of St.
Paul, Minnesota, headquarters . .. MIKE
NEWTQN of Thousand Qaks, California,
visited the alumni office just before the
holidays. As product manager for Ken ­tile
Floors he does considerable travel­ing
to foreign markets.
1957 GERRY DQYLE, Western Re ­gional
Manager for ITT Data
Equipment, writes from Ana ­heim,
California: "Cover 15 western
States, plus Alaska and Hawaii for the'
Company. See a lot of RQN RICHARD­SQN
'56, who also lives in Anaheim
and is in the same Hospital Charity
Bridge Group. Also see JERRY McMA­NUS
of my class" ... TIM MUNNS was
recently named Manager, Medical Pro­ducts
Division , of Cyanamid Borinquen
Corporation, and is liv ing in San Juan .
Puerto Rico . . . NORM FELLERS brings
us up to date: "I have recently b een
transferred to a nother subsidiary com­pany
of Planning Research Corporation­Maynard
PRC of Italy, and am cur ren t ­ly
working on production control sys­tems
on a contract with Societa Italiana
Vetro, a glass manufacturing company
in San Salvo, Italy.
1958 STAN WILSQN has done so
well with Snelling & Snelling
(executive recruiters) in Rio de
Janeiro, that he would like to pass on
some valuable information to alumm
who are contemplating a se lf-employed
enterprise. Although we are not in the
habit of accepting company ads we
thought the following might be of inter­est
to some of our alumni:
IF YOU HAVE MISSED THE EX­ECUTIVE
SUITE AND YQU'RE
RUNNING QUT QF TIME
START YQUR QWN BUSINESS.
If your career has stalled (when you
should be at the top) do you think
you'll ever make it? If not, do some­thing
about it; start your own busi­ness
- a local Snelling and Snelling
Employment Service. The company
starts you with extensive classroom
and field training in all procedures
_ advertising, accounting, guidance
in selection, training and supervi­sion
Qf your personnel. STAN sug­gests
that interested parties call
(215) 644- 8100 (collect) and ask for
Bob Nolan. The international offices
of Snelling & Snelling are located
at 2 Industrial Blvd., Paoli, Pennsyl­vania
19301. 0.1' if you would like to
write to Stan he can be reached at
Snelling & Snelling Consultores de
Pessoal Ltda. , Av . Graca Aranha
57 / 510, Rio de Jane iro, Brazil.
KOHRS 158 JOINS
INDIANA BANK
RQBERT H. KQHRS has been elected a
Vice Presid ent of the Indiana National
Bank in Indianapolis and will h('ad the
bank's international divi sion. He was
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, APORT NAMED SENIOR VP
RQBERT E. LA­PQRT
of Brooklyn
Heights , New York,
has been named a
se ni or v ice pres i­dent
of Chemical
B a nk. H e j o in ed
Chemical in 1968 as
an assistant v ice
presiden t in the La­tin
America Terri­tory
of the interna­tional
d ivision. He
was promoted to Vice President in 1969.
He joined Chemical following a ten­year
career with The Chase Manhattan
Bank where he se rved in the Latin
American Divis ion, and spent two years
at the Buenos Aires, Argentina head­quarters.
Bob and his wife , Geraldine,
and daughter reside at 15 Clark Street,
Brookly n , N.W.
previously Vice President of the Asia
Banking Group for Chase Manhattan
Bank in New York. While employed by
Chase he held assignments in both
Panama and the Virgin Islands.
1959 DAVE YQUMANS has been
transferred from Colombia to
Brazil to be Brazilian Director
for Foster Parents Plan, Inc . Although
he will work in Niteroi , the family will
live in Rio.. RICK BLQQMBERG
r eports : "Everyone is fine here. QUI'
dinner-theatre business is doing quite
well and we have had a chance to travel
a bit. In F ebruary, we all went to Mexi­co
for about 3 weeks. It was our firs t
trip back since moving to Minnesota
five years ago. How Mexico has changed!
OLIVIA, who loves her city so much,
says it would be hard to live there now."
Rick is the owner of the Chanhassen
Frontier (Restaurant and Dinner thea­tre)
in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
WETZEL 159 PROMOTED
BY AVON
Avon Products, Inc., recently announced
the appointment of THQMAS J. WET­ZEL
as Director of International Field
Operations in the Company's world
headquarters in New York City.
Tom joined Avon in 1965 as Field Oper­ations
Trainee in the company's distri­bution
Center in Kansas City. After
serving in various capacities he was
named National Sales Manager-Spain .
the position he held until his recent
promotion. Prior to his association with
Avon, he was ass istant represe ntative
of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Mexico.
Tom and his wife, Patricia, and th eir
IouI' children res ide in Stamford, Con­necticut.
R.SONS APPOINTED SPECIAL
ARKETS MANAGER
DQNALD A. PAR­SQNS
'58 has been
named Special Mar­kets
Manager f o r
Leal' J et Ste reo, In c.,
in Tucson, Arizona.
In his new post he
will be respons ible
for the sa le of Lear
J et products to the
premium, military,
private label, truck ,
RV and QEM market places. He will also
spearhead the Company's effo rts in
international sales.
Prior to joining Leal' Jet, Don was Vice
Pres ident-Sales Marketing for the H. E.
Verble Company, and for a time served
as sales manager for Moore Business
Forms, eoneen tra ting primarily in the
Caribbean and Latin American area .
Don and his wife, Judy, and their three
children will live in Tucson .
Leal' Jet Stereo is the inventor of 8-
track stereo, and a leading producer of
8-track and cassette players and speak­e
rs for car and home installations.
1960 BUD SCHAEFER r esigned as
Vice President-International for
Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Ir­ving,
California, to become Vice Presi­dent
of Corporate Development for
Pharmavite Pharmaceutical Corporation,
as well as President of Pharmavite In­te
rnational Corporation in Arleta, Cali­fornia.
Pharmavite is a r elatively new
company specializing in health food s,
natural vitamins and dermatological
products and Bud's role will be to set up
a Research and Development Depart­ment
for prescription pharmaceuticals
. . . GENE WICK, Vice President-Manu­facturing
of R. J . Reynolds Tobacco
Company has moved to Geneva as Di­rector
of Manufacturing for the inter­national
division. He joined the company
in 1968 and was promoted to Plant Man­ager
in Puerto Rico in 1969. He rose to
Vice Presid ent-Manufacturing of the
Puerto Rico operations in 1972 ... In a
recent issue of THE THUNDERBIRD we
mentioned that GERRY KANGAS. had
been appointed General Manager of the
Fiji Island branches of First National
City Bank. More recently, he was pro­moted
to Resid ent Vice President and
will be responsible for the Bank's acti­vities
in other South Pacific Island
nations. BILL ZIMMERMAN has
been assigned to Austria by Goodyear
International Corporation as Ma naging
Director. He was previously Sales Man­ager
for Goodyea r-France ... The ART
MISNERS write from Manila: "We miss
YVES and BILLY CQCKE. Yves is in
the States looking for a new job. He
hopes to be back here soon. While
they're gone we a re renting their beach
house (about 2 hours from Manila) so
try to get away on weekends and long
holidays as often as poss ible. We have
enjoyed seeing CAROLYN and JQHN
DANIEL '71 here in Manila. Their p. are somewhat indefinite at this p., but it looks like they might be going to
Japan. We will spend New Years at the
beach along with PETE and MARY
BURGESS and family ."
1961 BOB GARRISON has been pro­moted
to Resident Vice Presi­dent
of AFIA operations in Rio
JERRY LEWIS was transferred to
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in August '73 as
Director of the CARE program-"build­ing
schools, water systems, feeding chil­dren
and training nurses." .. LEIGH­TON
WILLGERODT was recently
named Sales Manager, Industrial Chem­icals
Far East Division, for Hercules
International Trade Corporation, head­quartered
in Tokyo ... PAT HUGHES,
formerly with the California State Col­lege
System, is now Executive Vice
President of Associated Traders, Inc. ,
in Los Angeles .. BOB FRASER of
Technicolor, Inc., in Costa Mesa, Cali­fornia,
has returned from a business trip
to Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa.
1962 CHRIS and HILDEGARD
SCHEIFFELE are living in
Washington, D.C. , where he has
been assigned by CARE as Director,
Medical Volunteer Specialists ... DICK
LOTH has been appointed Regional
Manager-Latin America in the interna­tional
department of the Industrial Na­tional
Bank in Providence, Rhode Island .
He is a member of the International
House of Rhode Island and an adviser
to the international business exchange
program at Brown University ., BILL
and EDIE WROBEL and their two chil ­dren
spent Thanksgiving with the PETE
TROMBLEYS in their new home in
Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Trombleys
recently returned from Brussels to the
Waukesha Motors home office. Pete
interviewed on campus in November.
The Wrobels reside in Crystal Lake,
Illinoi s, where Bill is affiliated with
Baird & Warner Realtors . WALLEY
SANBORN writes : "We are still living
in Houston, and I am still District Sales
Manager for the MUD CAT Division of
the National Car Rental Systems. I have
nothing to do with renting cars, but am
still involved with selling construction
equipment just as I have been since
graduating in 1962. During the first half
of 1973 (my first complete s ix month
period with the organization ) I received
an informal award for being the top
producer in our division and I was the
newest member of the team . I travel
almost as much as I did overseas and I
find it quite interesting to get to know
my own country after over eight years."
1963 ED SAENZ resigned from C.R.
Bard International to accept a
position with Abbott Labora­tories
in Chicago as Area Manager-Latin
America. He will be in charge of all
operations in Latin America concerning
Abbott's nuclear medicine and diagnos­tics
division The DAVE SULLI­VANS
ha ve been transferred from Istan-bu
l to Athens by Union Carbide Middle GREENE PROMOTED
East Limited .. . DON and JUDY HELL-BUSCH
are living in Canoga Park. Cali­fOI'nia,
and Don is working for Fisher
Pen Company (they make the pen that
wrote on the moon) in Van Nuys, as
International Marketing Director. Judy
is finishing her BA in Fine Arts at Cal
Stale, and has applied for Master's
candidacy in Art History at UCLA ...
LYNN MAYER has decided to switch
from selling slocks and bonds to ped­dling
chicken. He recently left Merrill
Lynch in New York and has purchased
two Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in
Richmond, Indiana.
1964 DON BENTLEY is Export Sales
Manager for Goodyear Interna ­tional
in Craigavon, North Ire­land,
and has MIKE PERREN '70 as his
assistant. . LEN BABINEAU, formerly
of Union Carbide International, is pre­sently
employed by Pan American Air­lines.
He resides in Elmhurst, New York.
CHAMBERLAIN NAMED V.P.
OF ATLANTA BANK
ROBERT W. CHAM­BERLAIN
'64 has
been appointed a
Vice President and
Manager of the In­ternational
Banking
Division of The First
National Bank of
Atlanta.
A native of Denver,
Colorado , he was
form erly a vice
president with the
Central National Bank of Cleveland.
Prior to his association with CNB he was
employed by the Bank of America in
Mexico.
1965 FRED ROOT b ecame disen­chanted
with the fulltime pur­suit
of a doctorate and is cur­rently
employed as an economic planner
at United Way in Los Angeles. He is
still attend ing a few classes at UCLA.
Fred's brother-in-law, DICK STRAYER,
was a campus visitor in early February .
Dick alld Louisc are residing in Are­quipa,
Peru, where he is Production
Manager of Leche Gloria . TERRY
and CAROL THOMAS report a very
busy itinerary for 1973. They hosted a
rash of visitors at their Hong Kong
home, enjoyed a trip to the Philippines
and an even longer vacation in Europe.
Flew from London "Over the Pole" to
Los Angeles where they spent 16 days.
The European trip was prompted by an
in v itation for Terry to enter into the
partnership of Myers (Hong Kong)
which necessitated several days in the
London office. . LEN BERNOT AS,
formerly with Allis-Chalmers Manufac­turing
Company, is now employed at
the Waukesha Motors Company head­quarters
in Wisconsin.
Th e promotion
of DOUGLAS W.
GREENE '65 to the
post of Marketing
Manager has been
announced by the
in terna tional sales
division of Whirl­pool
Corporation. In
his new assignment,
he will be responsi­ble
for all of Whirl­pool's
international
marketing, advertising and sales promo­tion
activities.
Doug .ioined Whirlpool in 1965 as a
marketing supervisor in the interna­tional
sales division and was named
sa les promotion manager a year later.
From 1967 to 1972, he was regional sales
manager for Latin America and the
Caribbean with offices in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
The Greenes and their two daughters
reside in Stevensville, Michigan.
1966 JOE THOMPSON, Manager of
Market Research for Southeast
Bancorporation in Miami, Flo­rida,
visited campus in early November.
He was very impressed with the campus
and the progress at Thunderbird in the
last few years '. FRANCESCO MI­CHELATO
is a senior management
consultant with Whinney Murray Ernst
81: Ernst in Milan, Italy .. . the MIKE
FENNEYS are still at Fort Huachuca,
where Mike is a civilian employee at
the army base. He is also enrolled in
a master's program conducted on the
base by the University of Northern
Colorado. Caroline has been substituting
at various schools in the area, teaching
everything from first grade to high
school. . Recent 1966 alumni visitors
were JO SHA YA, Manager, Special
Representatives for RCA Mobile Com­munications
Systems, of Denver, Colo­rado;
CHARLIE PLATT, Manager, Mar­keting
Services, at Campbell Soups
headquarters, and JOHN THIELBAHR,
who was recruiting for Continental
Bank of Chicago. John has been assigned
to the Bank's Los Angeles branch.
1967 HUMBERTO BECERRA, for­merly
of Dow Chemical Com­pany
in Miami, Florida, has set
up his own firm d.b.a. Eighth Continent
Enterprises in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The company serves as manufacturers'
representatives for the plastic industry
. . . If company plans do not change,
DAL ARCHIBALD will soon become
General Manager of the new South
Africa division of National Chemsearch.
For the past few months, Dal has been
liaison between the Dallas home office
and the Puerto Rico operations. Linda,
still in Texas, has been working part
time at the Century Paper Company and
trying to forge ahead with her freelance
writing . . . Following two years in
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Lima, Peru, the DICK VOGLERS are & han up, plenty of food, clean ail' to
back at the Koehring Company office in W{;rcathe, no drug problems, a nd little
Appleton, Wisconsin, where he is em­ployed
as regional international sa les
manager in the farm division , TOM
and GISELA HOLMQUIST are resid ing
in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela , on assign­ment
for MONACA, a subsidiary of In­ternational
Multifoods . JOHN Mc­QUILKIN
is an investment executive
with Scudder, Stevens & Clark in New
York City. , , The RALPH HARMONS
left Firestone and Africa and returned
to the States several months ago. They
will shortly leave for Indonesia where
he will be a Cost Engineer for a division
of the United Geophysical Corporation
of Pasadena, California, They will be
located about 200 miles south of Dja­karta
, , , The VIC FONT AINES, for­merly
of Caterpillar-Singapore, write:
"We've been transferred from Singapore
to Madrid, Spain, The total transition
from the East to Europe has occupied
most of this year and we have been
enjoying every minute of it. Spain and
the Spanish people are outstanding.
After an intensive Spanish language
month, now carrying on work and pleas­ure
in Spanish (even if I do sound like
a very slow 3-year-old child). We've
also had the opportunity to see some of
the charm and contrasts of the Iberian
Peninsula, In addition, Karin and Vic­toria
had a chance to visit my family
in the U,S, this summer, and to visit
her mother in Germany," , , , MILLI
KVISTAD reports from Switzerland: "It
looks like we'll be here in Geneva for a
good while, KEN quit Carbide this sum­mer
to go into his own consulting busi­ness,
He is very happy with the change,
The children go to the local school and
do quite well in French,"
1968 CHARLES BARRINGER was
recen tly promoted from the
Sales Department of Texaco in
Kinshasa, Zaire, to the company's Pro­duction/
Exploration Division and as­signed
to the Republic of Niger. While
in Zaire his coworker was HAL TUNE
'67. In his new assignment, Charley will
have the responsibility of setting up an
office in Niamey which will coordinate
the company's forthcoming drilling pro­gram.
He writes: "Anybody who finds
himself in the middle of the Sahara (I
hope not by accident) is welcome to
drop in. We have the room, a well­stocked
bar, food a la francaise and a
very good shower, We are not anticipat­ing
a big crowd (a glance at the map
should suffice to know why), but the
invitation is completely sincere." . . .
DAVE BELL has been promoted to
Manager of the Pacific Northwest Re­gion
of the Foreign Credit Insurance
Association with headquarters in San
Francisco . . , While BILL STONE,
Thunderbird Food Service Manager, was
vacationing in Hawaii over the Christ­mas
Holidays he ran into FRANK BIER­SACH,
owner of Camelot East (featur­ing
arts and crafts from Vietnam and
Mainland China) in Honolulu. , . MY­RON
CARLSON reports that life in
Brazil continues to be good-no gas
rationing, inflation going down rather
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need for heated houses. Myron is still
working his little ranch and looking for
US products to represent CLARK
HAMM has been named an Assistant
Vice President of the Bank of America's
inte rnationa l banking department. He
joined the Bank in 19G8, work ing initial­ly
in the Mex ico-Canada division and
was named an area relations o[( icer in
1970. In his new position, he is an
investment administra tor for project
lending and synd ications JOHN
HARRIMAN has been promoted to Vice
President of the Brazilian operations of
the Bankers Trust Company in Sao
Paulo, "Working with me is JAN JARNE
'69, who is opening up a new office for
us in Rio. My former boss, DICK HAYES
'62 joined Banco Intercontinental de
Investimentos as a Director. Myoid
roommate, PETE JOOST, has also been
assigned to Sao Paulo, and is heading up
the r epresentative office of the Republic
National Bank of Dallas.". ,November
12, 1973, was a big day for the BOB
LANGS of Phoenix. On that date, Bob
started his new job as Manager of Fi­nancial
Planning and Analysis for Ar­mour
Pharmaceutical Company and
became the proud father of a second
daughter JIM RICHARDS is an
officer in the international division of
the First Pennsylvania Bank in Phila­d
elphia , ,VAL STUKULS recently
resigned his position with Crown Zeller­bach
in Puerto Rico and has r eturned
to the New England area .
JOINS CITICORP LEASING, INC.
The new manager of
Citicorp Leasing,
Inc. in Houston is
SAMUEL M, PARK­ER,
a 1968 Thun­derbird
graduate .
He joined the firm
in January 1973, in
th e Multinational
Finance Programs
Group, Earlier he
had been a financial
consultant at Chemical Bank in New
York, and in the marketing operation of
Philip Morris International, New York.
Following graduation from Thunderbird
he received a Master of Business Ad­ministration
degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Business.
Headquartered in New York, Citicorp
Leasing, Inc. is the world's largest equip­ment
lea sing organization serving clients
in a broad range of fields. Citicorp Leas­ing
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of First
National City Corporation and is affili­ated
with the First National City Bank,
the larges t bank in the international
market.
1969 JOHN BARELLI has opened a
law office in Kansas City, Mis­souri;
DEAN ANDEHSON is
employed by the Snowbird Corporation
in Snowbird, Utah; SANDY STONE is a
reserve officer with the Brooklyn Re­gional
Office of IRS, and ROLFF JO­HANSEN
is Manager, international serv-
)/ of the Airborne Freight Corporation
Jamaica, New York ... CHARLES
and LOIS BAUCCIO are living in Lon­clon,
where he is a second vice prcsident
of the Chase Manhattan Bank ., As
Loan reviewer for WeJls Fargo Bank,
JIM BLAISDELL enjoyed a month's
business / pleasure trip to Brazil and
Peru JURGEN BRENDEL has been
assigned to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by
the Ame rican International Group, and
ROBERTO BRENTON has been trans­fefl'ed
to Mexico City by FNCB ,
MIKE CONSIDINE has been named
Manager of the Bank of America branch
in Colon, Panama. Mike is an active
ama teur radio operator (ca ll s ign
HPIXMM) , which keeps him in touch
with the rest of the world . , , ERIC
FABLE has assumed the position of
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Word/International, Inc., which
maintains its corporate offices in Den­ver,
Colorado. . Marine Midland Bank
has assigned TIM COLLE~T to Bogota,
as international banking officer and
r epresentative to Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru, ,JOHN CASSIN, also of Marine
Midland, has been transferred to the
Bank's London office , , . MEG GOETZ
is working for the Drug Abuse Interven­tion
Project (Santa Barbara County
Schools) . DAIP is one of eleven projects
throughout the country funded by the
U.S, Office of Education, Meg is living
in Carpenteria, California, and invites
area and visiting Thunderbirds to give
her a call-(Area Code 805)-964-4711,
Extension 233 , , , STEVE HALL is an
international trade specialist with the
U. S. Department of Commerce in Phila­delphia
and announces his engagement
to Miss Patricia J, Teagle of Alexandria,
Virginia ., DICK KOEHLER of the
M, W, Kellogg Company has returned
from his project management post at
El Tablazo, Venezuela, petrochemical
complex, where Kellogg is overseeing
the planned $1.2 billion installation, He
was recently appointed manager of sales
ndministration at the Kellogg branch in
Houston, , ERNIE PALOUTZIAN is
an assistant vice president of Bank of
America International in Chicago , ..
WOO HYON PAEK r eports that he left
S. C, Johnson in Seoul the last of August
and is presently working for the Korea­United
States Economic Council, which
is a non-profit organization that assists
American businessmen seeking business
and investment opportunities in Korea
, , WARD RYAN is an account execu­tive
with Tudor-Marsh & McLellan (in­surance
brokers) in Rio , , . BOB
STEWART recently accepted the posi­tion
of Assistant to the President of
International Marine Services in Dubai,
U,A.E. The company is engaged pri­marily
in the rental of marine vessels,
well servicing, offshore maintenance,
rental of heavy equipment, etc, ...
TONY VAN MARLE is an account exec­utive
with Dean Witter & Company in
Tucson; ERIC WEBEH is Chairman of
Grabler Industrial Corporation in Tai­pei,
Taiwan, and MIKE; WILEY is a
representative for Charles Machine
Works in Mexico- City ,BOB and
SUZANNE WILLIAMSON are living in
London, where Bob is manager of cor-
porate finance at Continental Illil.
Bank Limited . . . JOHN HUGHES
Woodland Hills, California, is back on
campus this semester to complete re­quirements
for a Masters Degree.
PROMOTED TO INTERNATIONAL
OFFICER
MONICO R. ESPI­NOSA
'·69 has been
given the corporate
title of International
Officer in First
Western Bank's in­ternational
division
at the Los Angeles
Head office . His
responsi bili ties in -
elude maintaining
account relation-ships
with the coun- ~
tries of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. He
is a native of Mesa, Arizona.
1970 KAREN (ABBEY) BANKS, for­merly
with United California
Bank, is now employed by
FNCB in San Francisco. Husband, JEFF,
is an account executive for Metro Tran­sit
Advertising in Oakland . . . JOHN
BRADY reports: "Since April 1973, I
have been working with Adela Invest­ment
Company in the Sao Paulo office,
as a financial analyst and loan officer. I
was married in June to Maria Etel Nagy
of Sao Paulo." .. .' After spending three
and a half years in Europe and Asia
with FNCB, LARRY EDSTROM has
been transferred to Latin America and
is now in charge of the Bank's travel­ling
inspection team which covers Can­ada,
the Caribbean, Central America and
the top half of South America. In addi­tion
to Larry, there are four other
Thunderbirds on the team - BRUCE
LARSON '69, GARY SKAWIN '72,
GARY SMITH '72 and MIKE BURKE
'72 . . . JIM EDWARDS is a branch
manager for the Wachovia Bank & Trust
Company in Charlotte, North Carolina;
LIBBY GINNETTI is a marketing serv­ices
administrator with the American
International Assurance Company in
Bangkok, Thailand, and BILL HOEY is
an account executive for Merrill Lynch
in Dallas ... BEVERLY CHAN writes
from New York: "My former roommate,
BETSY CAMMACK, is now with Chase
Manhattan Bank as a corporate loan
officer for the U.S. and Scandinavian
countries. After Betsy and I left the
'Tute' we went overseas and travelled
together for about eight months around
the world, picking up additional infor­mation
about 'doing business in various
countries.' JULIET A FLORES, who at­tended
the School back in 1968 and re­turned
in 1970 to get her MIM, worked
and lived in Germany for two years.
She is now back in the U.S. and work­ing
for Revlon International (first fe­male
in a management position) here in
New York City. Also, KATHY STULLA
'72 is working for Chase Manhattan
Bank in thc marketing departmcnt. He. cranes and excavators in Colorado, Wy­former
roommate, GAYNOR WIL- oming, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico ...
LIAMS '71 is in the media department
of an ad\'ertising firm here in thc City."
Beverly is employed in the New York
offices of General Motors Overseas
Operations as a production planning
analyst for non-automotive products ...
LEN HOLZWORTH, formcrly with
Westinghouse, has accepted a position
with the Harley-Davidson Division of
AMF and is based in Milwaukee ...
FRANCIS KELLY is working for Pro­ductos
Libby in San Juan, Puerto Rico
When we last heard from PETER
KINGMAN he was planning a January
1st move to Northern Trust Company's
London branch " JOHN MUNCY, in­ternational
officer for the Bank of Cali­fornia,
makes frequent business trips to
Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia
.. CURT PASKETT spent two years as
a technician at a Morocco research cen­ter
and is currently a graduate student
at the University of Arizona. . MIKE
and KATHY PERREN are in North Ire­land
on an assignment for the Goodyear
Tyre & Rubber Company; DON REIS is
attending the University of Missouri,
and WES SHEEHY is employed by the
Masonite Corporation in the San Fran­cisco
regional offices . . . BO SEIFERT
writes from Stockholm: "I started my
own company together with an inter­national
advertising agency in London
called Kimpher International. Regards
from KETIL OSLAND, whom I meet
quite frequently, and JOHN SVALAN­DER
'67, who now works in Switzer­land."
... PETER WELLMAN has been
promoted to assistant vice president in
the Europe, Middle East and African
Division of Bank of America's Interna­tional
banking department . . . JOE
MOORE is an international marketing
coordinator for Commercial Metals in
Dallas, and GERRY WOLF is a financial
analyst with the Mead Corporation in
Dayton, Ohio . . . BILLY WINDLAND
reports from Miami, Florida, where he
works for the U.S. Government: "In
January 1972, we adopted two Korean
children. Sook Jong (now Kimberly
Joy) was four years of age, and her
brother Ho Jong (now John Michael)
was three years of age. The children
were adopted through the Korean Social
Services." ... CHAN KUHN writes from
Metairie, Louisiana: "Earlier this month,
JIM was asked to take over the Cana­dian
operations for his company (Re­placement
Lens Insurance). So we will
probably move to Toronto in about a
year. I got my real estate license in
November and just started working this
past week. I love it!"
1971 MAHLON BARASH of New­town,
Pennsylvania, received a
Master's Degree in Anthropol­ogy
from The Pennsylvania State Uni­versity
in December ... JOHN SAN­TANA
is assistant manager of Connell
Brothers' operations in Guam ... As
District Sales Representative for Bucy­rus-
Erie in Denver, GARY CUNNING­HAM
is responsible for the sales,
management and distribution of B-E
JAY MARKS joined N. W. Ayer (adver­tising
company) in Chicago in October
'73 and has been assigned to the John
Deere overseas ad vertising account ...
NEIL KLEINECKE writes from Depew,
Oklahoma: "Married on August 4th,
1973, and joined Georgia-Pacific Cor­poration
on October-1st and will call on
retail lumber yards in part of Oklahoma
and industrial accounts in the Tulsa
area." ., DAVE MILTON is employed
by the advertising firm of Tracy-Locke
in Dallas, and is currently working on
the Phillips Petroleum account.
VELASCO APPOINTMENT
JOHN A. VELASCO, formerly a terri­torial
assistant, has been appointed an
assistant international banking officer,
Latin America regional administration
at Marine Midland Bank in New York.
He received a MSIM from Thunderbird
in May 1971.
John resides at 14 Franklin Turnpike,
Waldwick, New Jersey 07463.
1972 TOM ATWOOD is employed in
the Export Division of Fisher
Mills in Seattle ... DAN and
LINDA BOHART are living in Kailua,
Hawaii, while Dan is a management
trainee with the Bank of Hawaii in
Honolulu . . . GARY BRUKARDT has
been appointed executive director of the
Phoenix Alcoholism Consortium of 15
agencies involved in the treatment of
alcoholism ... MIKE CLENNAN, inter­nal
auditor for Texaco, spent several
months in New York City and San Juan,
Puerto Rico on auditing assignments. In
January, he was transferred to the
Caribbean and Central America region
for eighteen months-after that it will
be Europe or South America ... JEFF
DAWSON wrote from Portland, Oregon,
a few weeks ago to report that he would
be making a trip to the Philippines on
behalf of Columbia Affiliated Groups ...
DON EHRETT, International Depart­ment
Inspector for First National City
Bank, writes: "Since graduating in Au­gust
'72, I am well on my way to mil­lionaire
- in air travel miles - having
visited England, Germany, Pakistan, In­dia,
Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore
and the Philippines, with home leave
trip in July '73" ... JOHN HUGHES, is
working for the Bank of America in San
Francisco, and DAVE JAWORSKI is an
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administrative assistant at Motorola in
Phoenix ... MARC FILES reports from
Northfield, Ohio: "I joined Hanna in
March '73 and have spent these months
traveling to such areas as Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and so on.
I will ultimately be assigned to the
overseas sales office in London where
NANCY and I will reside for some
years." ... STEVE and MARION MA­HOOD
are living in Elyria, Ohio, Steve
is with Ridge Tool Company and re­cently
returned from a five week trip to
Africa ... SVERRE KOXVOLD is work­ing
for Memorex U.K. as assistant to the
European Treasurer, based in London ...
MARK PITTMAN is a Professor of In­ternational
Trade and Marketing at the
University of the Americas in Puebla,
Mexico, and JEFF WALLIN is working
as assistant to the Vice President of
Beijer, Inc., a large and successful
Swedish import-export firm headquar­tered
in Stockholm.
ECHLE PROMOTED
JAMES E. ECHLE, who joined Salsbury
International at Charles City, Iowa, a
year ago, has been promoted to Asia
Marketing Director, headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan. His position will include
working with the Salsbury subsidiary
(Salsbury Japan Company, Ltd.) as an
advisor and liaison man with the home
office. He will travel through Asia as
the Company representative, working
with distributors in each country. Jim
is a December '72 Thunderbird graduate.
'72. THUNDERBIRDS
JOIN L'OREAL
ELSON PRIC£
GARRY B. PRICE and STEPHEN D.
ELSON, Class of December 1972, have
been named assistant product managers
in the Salon Department of L'Oreal.
They will be working out of the New
York office. L'Oreal is a Division of
Cosmair, Inc.
Garry's responsibilities will revolve
around new hair treatment lines, while
Steve will be involved in forecasting,
planning, projecting and marketing the
classical hair color and hair care lines.
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AVANAUGH PROMOTED BY C-H
MICHAEL KAVANAUGH '72 of Cutler­Hammer
World Trade in Milwaukee,
has been promoted to the newly created
position of Manager, Distributor Export
Sales. The position was created to ex­pand
export sales worldwide by the
establishment of regional offices in Afri­ca,
the Middle East, the Caribbean and
South America, and the Pacific and
Orient.
VICKY and Mike recently purchased a
home in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, and
if any classmates are in the Milwaukee
area they would be happy to have them
drop by.
SKAYNE WITH VELCRO
INTERNATIONAL
CHET (CZESLAW)
SKA YNE, Class of
December 1972, has
been named Inter­national
Sales and
Marketing Manager
in the New York
City Offices of Vel­cro
International
Corporation.
He was formerly
associated with Na-shua
Corporation as
assistant to the International Sales
Manager.
1973 BJORN AL VEN reports from
Sweden: "I have accepted an
offer of employment from Nor­diska
Maskinfilt Aktiebolaget, Industri­textilie-
Gruppen in Halmstad. I will
work as an assistant to the Vice Presi­dent
in charge of the international divi­sion
and travel frequently to the U.S.
and Western Europe." ... BERNIE AN­DERSON,
management trainee at To­peka
Inn in Topeka, Kansas, worked for
four months to initiate the company's
international development program,
however, the fuel crisis has temporarily
curtailed this project. Currently he is
learning inhouse operations ... PAUL
BERGMAN is a foreign trade specialist
with the U.S. Department of Commerce
in Kansas City; CHUCK BETZ is a
trainee at Bank of America in San
Francisco; DON BISBEE is a college
division field representative with Pren­tice-
Hall in Phoenix, and GARY CRAM
is working for Crest Importing Com­pany
(seafood importers and exporters)
in San Diego . . . When we last heard
from JIM LOVE he was enjoying a ski­ing
vacation at Purgatory, Colorado,
before reporting to his position as ac­count
executive for Merrill Lynch in
Beverly Hills . . . AL NORDEL writes
from Olympia, Washington: "Started
work on September 18th with the Wash­ington
State Department of Commerce,
Trade Development Division, and have
working with smaller and medium
d companies in the State to help
them line up markets overseas-initially
by exporting. Work with another Thun­derbird,
DON MILLIGAN '67." . . .
RON PFAFFLIN is Manager of Interna­tional
Sales for Eagle Signal in Daven­port,
Iowa. He expected a January visit
from FRED SMOOT '66 and bride of
Manila. Ron met Fred while he was
working for CARE in the Philippines
... EINO HUHTALA is a Professor at
the College des Seienes Social et Eco­nomic
in Paris; JOHN GRAEFF is an
international financial specialist for
Lone Star Gas Company in Dallas;
HOWARD GOLDSMITH is Export Man­ager
of Kleen Copy Products in Los
Angeles; HUNTER FRY is employed as
Marketing Manager for the D. W. Hearn
Machine Works of Oklahoma City, and
DENNIS FERGUSON is a management
trainee at Manufacturers Hanover in
New York City ... Also a management
trainee at the same Bank is BOB SHEF­FIELD
. . . DENNIS VELIE has ac­cepted
a position as Manager (placement
and employment) for the Jervis B.
Webb Company in Detroit, and JOE
SHUMATE is a sales trainee at Bur­roughs
Corporation in Oklahoma City ...
STEVE VAN LUVEN has had a busy
time since leaving Thunderbird. After
interviewing for a week in New York
he accepted an offer with Dancer Fitz­gerald
Sample, Inc., as an assistant
account executive, currently working on
the General Mills account. He mentioned
that HUNTER FRY, who is with D. W.
Hearn Machine Works in Oklahoma City,
had visited him in December, that he sees
CARLOS REYNOSA of AIG, and ran in­to
BOB VOSBURGH at a party hosted by
KATHY INGRAM and SUZIE SAGY ...
December '73 graduates who have re­ported
their location and company affil­iation
are: TIM ANTILLA Chemical
Bank, New York; CURTIS ATKINSON,
United Bank of Denver, Denver; STE­PHEN
AUSTIN, McGraw-Edison, Elgin,
Illinois; JOHN BABBITT, McGraw-Edi­son,
Elgin, Illinois; JOE BOISVERT,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York;
GORDON BOWERS, First National City
Bank, New York; MARY ANN BRA­STED,
Bank of America, San Francisco;
STEPHEN BUTLER, Caterpillar Tractor
Company, Peoria, Illinois; JIM DALE,
International Leisure Corporation, Tok­yo,
Japan; MARK DILLON, Chase Man­hattan
Bank, New York; MARIO
ESQUERRA, American International
Group, New York; LOUrS FREY, Nord­son
Corporation, Amherst, Ohio; DIANA
R. GADDIE" Bank of America, San
Francisco; RICHARD GREENWOOD,
North Carolina National Bank, Char­lotte;
THOMAS HARVEY, Rossman &
Company, Sacramento, California; STE­VEN
HELPHAND, First National City
Bank, New York; ALBERTO. HERNAN­DEZ,
General Accounting Office, Wash­ington,
D.C.; SANTIAGO HINOJOSA,
General Accounting Office, Washington,
D.C.; PAUL IIYAMA, McGraw-Edison,
Elgin, Illinois; BEHZAD ISSARI, Amer­ican
International Group, New York;
ROXANNA JUNI, Manufacturers Han­over
Trust Company, New York;
JACQUES KERREST, Chemical Be
New York; JAMES KISELA, AmeriL~
Express Company, New York; JACK
KITCHEN, Connell Brothers; JOEL
KOPEL, Hertz International, New York;
JAE SUK LEE, Korea Development
Bank, Seoul; BILL LING, Ling-McCann­Erickson,
Hong Kong; JAMES LOVE,
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith,
Beverly Hills; GARY LUMSDEN, Col­gate-
Palmolive, New York; KEN Mc­ALPIN,
Esso Inter-America, Coral
Gables; GEORGE McKEE, J. Walter
Thompson, New York; RON MacDON­ALD,
Bank of America, San Fran­cisco;
MARY MATTHIESEN, Benton &
Bowles, Inc., New York; JOHN MEIER,
Omaha National Bank, Omaha; GARY
MILLER, FMC Corporation, Jonesboro,
Arkansas; JOHN MOORHEAD, First
Pennsylvania National Bank, Philadel­phia;
JOHN NEBEL, Chase Manhattan
Bank, New York; CARALIE OLSEN,
Chemical Bank, New York; MICHAEL
O'SHEA, Philadelphia National Bank;
REX RIBOLLA, Southland Corporation,
Tempe; GEORGE SALVATIERRA, Gen­eral
Accounting Office, Washington,
D.C.; JIM SANCHEZ, Benton & Bowles,
New York; RAY SCHUVILLE, Chase
Manhattan Bank, New York; JETT
SMITH, Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia; IL
HYUN SORN, Korea Development Bank,
Seoul; EUGENEJ SPINDLER, Nordson
Corporation, San Francisco; LEE STEW­ART,
Chase Manhattan Bank, New
York; KENNETH TANNER, Industrial
Molasses Corporation, Englewood Cliffs,
N. J.; SALAH TARRAF, Xerox Corpor­ation,
Montreal, Canada; ROBERT TAT­GENHORST,
Chemical Bank, New York;
CONSTANTINE THEODOROU, Oceanic
Drilling Company, Denver; MARY
THORNE, Colgate-Palmolive Company,
New York; ALBAN TOULEMONDE,
AFIA Worldwide Insurance, New York;
GERARD VAN HUEVEN, Caterpillar
Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois; PAUL
WAGNER, Champion Paper & Celulose,
S. A., Sao Paulo, Brazil; JUDSON
WELSH, Chemical Bank, New York;
CHARLES WILSON, Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith, San Diego,
California; HOYET WILSON, Sam P.
Wallace Company, Dallas; PHIL WITH­ERSPOON,
Firestone International, Ak­ron,
Ohio; THOMAS WONG, North
Carolina National Bank, Charlotte ;
BAXTER WOODARD, First City Na­tional
Bank, Houston, Texas; JU WHAN
YUN, Minnesota Mining & Manufactur­ing
Company, St. Paul, Minnesota; ED
CALLAGHAN, Doctorale Program, Ari­zona
State University ... If you have
accepted employment and have not re­turned
your alumni questionnaire, or
notified the alumni office, we urge you
to do so at your earliest convenience.
For those who have not found employ­ment
we hope that your search will be
a brief and lucrative one.
ALUMNI VISITORS
DENNIS HECKER '67 of St. Petersburg,
Florida ... BILL PARKER '65 of Phoe­nix
'" GINGER VAN WEGEN (Mrs.
Eric) '70 and infant daughter of Titus-ville,
New Jersey .. . HAL CARPEN
TER '47 ... DAVID CHANDLER '68 of
Denver. . ALBAN SCHUELE '70 of
Hamburg, Germany . . . MIKE ENG­LISH
'68 of Azusa, California . . .
HUGH and AKIE EHRLICH '71 and son
of Las Vegas ... BOB WALKER '50 of
Geneva, Ohio . . . LARRY EDSTROM
'70 of New York (interviewing for
FNCB) ... CARL CONNEY '72 of St.
Paul, Minnesota ... HENRY AVALOS
'70 of Washington, D.C. (interviewing
for General Accounting Office) . . .
EARL COPPERSMITH '54 of Philadel­phia
.. . JOHN THIELBAHR '66 of Los
Angeles (interviewing for FNCB) ...
TIM McGINNIS '68 of New York (in­terviewing
for Chase Manhattan Bank)
· . . JOE THOMPSON '66 of Miami,
Florida ... ERIC JORGENSEN '68 of
Hermosa Beach, California " JOE
SHAY A '66 of Denver . . . WILLARD
WAGNER '56 of Jonesboro, Arkansas
(interviewing for FMC Corporation) . ..
JOHN AVARD '65 of Elyria, Ohio (in­terviewing
for Ridge Tool) . . . RON
PFAFFLIN '73 of Davenport, Iowa ...
PETER TROMBLEY '62 of Waukesha
Wisconsin (interviewing for Waukesh~
Motors) ... CHARLIE PLATT '66 of
Camden, New Jersey ... BOB KING '71
of Atlanta, Georgia ... BILL STANTON
'67 of Tempe, Arizona ... JOSE SERRA
'72 . . . BILL WALSH '71 of Mission
Viejo, California ... RALPH and ANN­MARIE
HARMON '57 and son . . .
SHERAZ PERRA '71 of Scottsdale ...
ROBERT GREENBAUM '72 ... KAMAL
GREISS '72 of Phoenix . . . STEVE
TIBERG '71 of Okinawa ... LARRY
JENNINGS '62 of Bellevue, Washing-ton
... JAMES BROKKEN '69 of New
York ... MIKE HANNAN '65 of Lima,
Peru . . . MARTHA THORNE MIRA­BEL
'68 of Santa Monica, California (on
campus to attend her sister's gradua­tion)
. . . MIKE NEWTON '56 of Thous­and
Oaks, California . . . MANFRED
BRAUN '72 of Troy, Michigan ...
MIKE O'SHAUGHNESSY '70 of Bogota,
Colombia (attending the '74 Winterim)
· .. DAVE ZEIGER '69 of Phoenix
JU WHAN YUN and wife '73 of Se~~l:
Korea ... JACK BUTEFISH '56 of Los
Angeles ... CHARLES MURPHY '71 of
Phoenix . . . RALPH HENRY '50 of
Bronx, New York ... PETER GUN­THER
'68 of Yosemite, California ...
RICHARD STRAYER '65 of Arequipa,
Peru . .. LOIS (ALBERTS) RADER '52
of Phoenix . .. VAN MOLLER '61 of
Napa, California ... JOHN LUSCHER
'72 of Sydney, Australia ... PAUL COL­LINS
'72 of Wurzburg, Germany . . .
ROBERT PLACHT '69 of Akron, Ohio
· .. HAM DETHERO '58 of San Fran­cisco
. . . KAMAL SOLANKI '65 of
Phoenix ... RICHARD PAINCHAUD
'73 of Tempe . . . the JOHN HAMIL­TONS
'71 of Sacramento . . . RUDY ZE­PEDA
'72 of Houston . . . the JIM
KOHLS '71 of Sao Paulo, Brazil ...
JOHN FISHER '64 of Naperville, Illinois
· .. BOB GUFFIN '71 of Saigon, Viet­nam
... BOB LAPORT '58 of New
York (interviewing for Chemical Bank)
· . . DON BURROWS '70 of Chicago
(interviewing for First National Bank
of Chicago).
CONGRATULATIONS ~d BEST
WISHES TO THE FOLLOWING THUN­DERBIRD
NEWLYWEDS: JOHN and
MARIA (NAGY) BRADY '70 of Sao
Paulo. . . CHARLES and STEPHANIE
(STITT) INGALSBEE '73 of Colorado
Springs ... OSCAR and JAYLINE
(COLE) FEBRES '73 of Lima, Peru ...
NEIL and SHERRY KLEINECKE '71 of
Depew, Oklahoma ... the NORM KVAL­VIKS
'72 of Phoenix . . . KAMAL and
EILEEN (LIPPERT) GREISS '72 of
Phoenix ... AMIR and AYATE MA­LAK
'73 of New York ... the FRED
SMOOTS '66 of Manila, Philippines ...
Y ADLAM and HEMALATHA DW AR­KANATH
'70 of Bangalore, India ...
JA Y and MARYALICE (HOWE) HEN­DERSON
'73 of Houston, Texas . . .
VINOD and DEEPIKA SINGH '73 of
Canada ... the VASANT RA V ALS '70
of New York .. . SUNEEL and BAR­BARA
(EBEL) TALWAR '71 of Jack­son
Heights, New York.
CRADLE ROLL
BOYS: The CHARLES BARRINGERS
'68 of Niamey, Republic of Niger . . .
BOB and ELLEN McCONNELL '53 of
Budd Lake, New Jersey .. . JERRY and
EVA LEWIS '61 of Tegucigalpa, Hon­duras
... BOB and ANNICK GARRI­SON
'61 of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...
TOM and GISELA HOLMQUIST '67 of
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela ... the
GRANT McDONALDS '68 of Oak Park,
Illinois ... BUZZ and HENRIETTA
YOUNT '71 of Columbia, South Caro­lina
... EUGENE and CAROLYN MET­LER
'62 of Provo, utah ... the MORRIS
BARKANS '72 of San Diego ... RALPH
and SUSAN SIMON '67 of Pleasanton
California ... HUGH and AKIE EHR~
LICH '71 of Las Vegas, Nevada ...
DAVE and LANA Hertel '70 of St. Trui­den,
Belgium ... STAN and ROBERTA
ALLEN '58 of Eugene, Oregon (twins)
· .. the GUENTER PFITZERS '71 of
Heidelberg, Germany . . . DICK and
MARIN KING '72 of Kohler, Wisconsin
· .. TODD and JANE HALL '72 of Mil­ton,
Massachusetts.
GIRLS: HANS and ARIANE COMBEE
'72 of Lyons, illinois . . . STEVE and
CAROL SULLINS '68 of Valencia, Spain
· . . the ROBB PEGLARS '72 of Cran­bury,
New J ersey ... MARIO and
CAROL GHO '73 of Staten Island, New
York ... JOE and LYNN MOORE '70
of Mexico City ... BOB and SUZANNE
WILLIAMSON '69 of London ... TIM
and LEANNE COLLETT '69 of Bogota
· .. the JOHN MUNCYS '70 of Tiburon,
California . . . MIKE and DENISE
MARCHESE '72 of Stamford, Connecti­cut
... the BOB LANGS '68 of Phoenix
· .. MAC and LIZ MESSENGER '72 of
Munich, Germany (adopted) ... KEN
and PATTY KROEGER '68 of Dallas,
Texas.
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SPRING 1974
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This has been an eventful year for American Graduate School of International Management. Probably the most
dramatic thing was the decision of the Board of Directors to change the name. For many of you who graduated during
the brief period the School was Thunderbird Graduate School, I'm sure the new name is met with mixed feelings. It was
the belief of the Board that the name American Graduate School more effectively mirrors the worldwide reputation of the
institution. While the word "Thunderbird" was revered by almost everyone on the Board, it does have a Southwest conno­tation
and hence tended to give a regional implication to the School. The Board felt this detrimental to fund-raising and
recruiting students and faculty. The School had been called the American Institute for Foreign Trade for over twenty years
so the Board reasoned that it was in part returning to the original name, but upgrading from an institute to a graduate school.
Of course, all current students and alumni will continue to be called Thunderbirds and the address of the campus will al­ways
be Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, Arizona.
The School opened the spring semester 1974 with 802 students. This is a record high figure for spring enrollment.
In order to hold enrollment down to approximately 800 students all admissions were cut off in October. Presently we are
planning to accept 140 new students for the summer session and approximately 400 new students for the fall semester 1974.
One thing I would like to impress upon you alumni is that we are always looking for more excellent students so please do not
diminish your efforts in the search for additional students for the School. We appreciate all of your efforts. As you know, it
has been the Thunderbird alumni and students who have been the principal contributors to the continuing success of this
institution.
We have just filled two important academic chairs at the School. Dr. William Peterson has been appointed to the
John David Campbell Chair of American Business, financed by the Scaife Family Charitable Trust. Dr. Peterson is a na­tionally
known economist, formerly chief economist for United States Steel Corporation and a senior economist with the
U.S. Department of Commerce. He taught for several years at New York University and has been a columnist and book
reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. The Chase Manhattan Bank Chair of International Business Management has been
filled for the spring semester by Dr. Taeho Kim from Korea University. In the fall the Chair will be held by Dr. Kichiro
Hayashi from the Japanese Institute for International Studies and Training. Dr. Hayashi is a management authority, edu­cated
in Japan and at Indiana University in the United States. He is a part of our continuing close relationship with Japan.
Our links with other institutions around the world continue to grow. We still have our exchange program with the
Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, Korea. We are again sending a group of 60 students to the Autonomous University
in Guadalajara for the summer session of 1974. We are negotiating with ESAN, a management school in Peru, and with
the University of Navarre in Barcelona for exchange programs. Our exchange with the Japanese Institute for International
Sfudies and Training has now been approved by the Japanese government so we will be sending a professor and a group of
students to their campus each year. They will continue to have a large group of their students on our campus each fall
for a two week seminar.
I was pleased to have met with the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. alumni groups in the past few months. I
hope during the next year to visit with many more of you.
As you know, we continue to need your financial support. The dining hall project is getting closer to a complete
success. Won't you make out a check for that project today and forward it to Martha Snyder?
William Voris, President
NEW NAME F THUNDERBIR
On December 1st, 1973, Thunderbird became the AMERICAN GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT.
The name change was made on recommendation of the long-range planning
committee, who felt that the name "Thunderbird", while descriptive locally did not
convey the international worldwide position the School holds.
In announcing the changc, President Voris said: "It was felt that the name,
Thunderbird, limited the School in relation with corporations around the world in
recruiting money for the School and in placing graduates on a worldwide basis.
Some School representatives had encountered problems with the name while travel­ing
overseas, and some of our peers in the academic world and in corporations made
disparaging remarks about the commercial sound of the name, which gave a more
proprietary than graduate tone."
The campus will still be called Thunderbird, and graduates of the School will
continue to be known as Thunderbirds.
PHOENIX RESIDENTS DONATE CAMPUS CHAPEL
Through the generosity of Mr. A.ndrew P. Tell, Phoenix contractor, and his wife
Mary, Thunderbird will soon have an Interfaith Chapel. Ground breaking exercises
were held on Friday, November 30th. The new edifice is located at the corner of 59th
Avenue and Greenway Road.
The Chapel, built at a cost of $25,000, will accommodate a congregation of
approximately 60 and may be used by all faiths. It will be formally dedicated in
Spring '74.
Some twenty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Tell, formerly of Akron, Ohio, established
a family nonprofit foundation designed to assist and support worthy undertakings.
It is the policy of the Foundation to give all of its net earned income each year to
these purposes. Mr. Tell reports that it is a small Foundation, representing gifts and
bequests of various individuals, but mainly from the family itself. In future years
they hope more of its growth will come from various new sources.
Much credit for securing the benefactor goes to a group of Thunderbird stu­dents,
Chairmaned by Robert Luzar, who realized the need for such a center.
DECEMBER '73
GRADUATION
214 candidates for the Master of Inter­national
Management Degree were pre­sented
at the December 19th graduation
exercises held in the central quad. Also
presented were six candidates for the
Wives Course Diploma, and one Certifi­cate
of Advanced Study.
Dr. Michael J. Jucius, Professor of Man­agement,
College of Business Adminis­tration,
University of Arizona, delivered
the commencement address on the sub-
THE THUNDERBIRD (alumni pub­lication
of the American Graduate
School of International Management)
is published in the Fall, Spring and
Summer of each year.
EDITOR: Martha L . Snyder
COVER: One of "The Mittens"
Monument Valley, Arizona,
Photo by Jerry D. Jacka,
the son of J erry A. Jacka
a former security guard at
Thunderbird.
ject of "The Role of Management in
International Business." The invocation
and benediction were given by The
Reverend Joseph Gillespie of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Church in Glendale.
Music was furnished by Dr. Paul E.
Paige of the Grand College Music De­partment.
The recipient of the Barton Kyle Yount
A ward was George Toufee DeBakey of
Ft. Dodge, Iowa. George received his
Business Administration Degree from
Drake University, and planned to fur­ther
his education at Southern Methodist
University. The BKY Award was estab­lished
in memory of the School's foun­der,
Lt. Gen. Barton Kyle Yount, and is
given to a member of each graduating
class. The Award is based on scholar­ship,
character and desire and potential
ability to serve America abroad.
The Phoenix Newspaper Advertising
Award was given to the team introduc­ing
"Lee's Jeans in Sweden" which won
top honors in the Fall '73 Advertising
Competition. The Athletic Award went
to Richard Sell. The Excellence In Cap­stone
Awards were presented to Stephen
J. Austin, Peter Hellwig, Michael May,
Thomas Sunde, James Dale, Milton Fye,
Gerry Sibley and Michael Fairley.
ALDIVIESO TO SUCCEED JACKLE
AS CHAIRMAN OF MODERN
LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
JackIe
Jorge Valdivieso, Professor of Spanish
at Thunderbird, will succeed Dr. Frank
R. JackIe as Chairman of the Depart­ment
of Modern Languages. The ap­pointment
will become effective on
September 1, 1974, and initially be for
one year, with the condition that Pro­fessor
Valdivieso may continue the
appointment as Chairman for the re­maining
two years of the normal three­year
period, providing that he obtains
his Ph.D. degree by September 1, 1975.
Selecting a successor for the post of
Chairman of the Department was a
difficult task, for the new Chairman
must continue the development of the
School's language program that has
been so conscientiously and successfully
guided by Dr. JackIe.
Jorge received a Licenciado en Derecho
y Ciencias Sod ales in 1960 from the
Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador, a
Master's Degree in Education from Ari­zona
State University in 1969, and a
Master's in Spanish from ASU in 1970.
He is currently pursuing a doctorate at
that University and has attended the
University of Paris - Sorbonne, Paris,
France.
Jorge became a member of the Thun­derbird
faculty in 1963. His experience
includes: Instructor in Spanish, Colegio
La Dolorosa, Loja, Ecuador; Colegio
Santo Domingo, Quito, Ecuador; Instruc­tor
in Spanish, St. Mary's College, Wi­nona,
Minnesota; Instructor, Spanish,
N.D.E.A. Language Institute, the Col':'
lege of Saint Teresa, San Josa State
College; Supervisor, N.D.E.A. Institute
in Spanish, Fairfield University; Faculty
Associate at Arizona State University;
Legal Advisor, Government of Ecuador;
Consul (A.H.) of Ecuador for Arizona,
Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. He has
also held special assignments in the
field of adult education, remedial read­ing,
programs for migrant children, etc.
He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi,
Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Mu Gamma and
Sigma Delta Pi fraternities; a member
of the Modern Language Association of
America, the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, the Arizona Foreign Langu­age
Association and the Arizona College
Association.
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He presented a paper at the Bilinguae Since coming to Thunderbird in 1971,
Business Education Conference held in Dr. Seshan has taught all levels of man-
Bisbee in 1972, and at the 1973 Annual agement courses, including a projects
Convention of the Arizona For eign La n- course which was the forerunner of
guage Association in Tucson. Capstone and then later taught the
Jorge 's wife, Teresa (formerly of the
Thunderbird language d epartment) is
an instructor at Arizona State Univer­sity.
Dr. Jackie came to AGSIM in the Fa ll
Semester of 1949 as an Associate Pro­fessor
of Spanish. He taught cla sses in
Spanish and Portuguese grammar and
Business Communications in English.
He has been a Professor of Languages
since 1956 and chairman of the Depart­ment
of Modern Languages since 1961.
Dr. Jackie received the Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1967 in Portu­guese
and Luso-Brazilian Studies. Dr.
JackIe will remain at Thunderbird and
devote fulltime to teaching. He plans to
teach Spanish and Portuguese grammar,
Business Communications, and to do
some research and writing.
GEER APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
WORLD BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
DR. MARSHALL
GEER II, a native
of New York, will
replace Dr. John E.
Drake as Chairman
of the World Busi­ness
Department.
Dr. Drake resigned
the post on Febru­ary
19th.
Before coming to
Thunderbird in Fall
1972, Dr. Geer was
an assistant profes­sor
of Economics at the University of
Colorado. He also taught at Colorado
State University and at the University
of Oregon. From 1968 to 1970, he was
a Fulbright Lecturer in Economics at
the Autonomous University of Guadala­jara,
Mexico. In 1966-67, he was a r e­search
assistant, University of Andes,
Merida, Venezuela.
He received his bachelor's degree in
Business Administration and Finance
and his MA degree from the Univer sity
of Denver. He also holds an MA and
Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Uni­versity
of Oregon.
Dr. Geer and his wife and three chil­dren
reside on the Thunderbird Campus.
SESHAN TO LEAVE
THUNDERBIRD
Dr. V. Seshan, professor of management
at Thunderbird, has submitted his re­signation,
effective after the Spring
semester. He indicated personal reasons
for leaving and said; "I feel my career
is ahead of me and I can find better
growth opportunities elsewhere."
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broader-scoped Capstone offered prior
to September 1973. He also gave the first
simulations course offered at the School.
Currently, he instructs the basic man­agement
course, International Man­agement
and Management Decisions
Systems.
Before joining the Thunderbird faculty,
Dr. Seshan was Staff Planning Analyst,
Corporate Planning Studies, for E. 1.
duPont de Nemours Company in Wil­mington,
Delaware, and an IBM Re­search
Fellow, Institute of Industrial
Research, Louisville, Kentucky.
THUNDERBIRD HOSTS
JAPANESE BANKER-STUDENTS
Fifty-nine Japanese students from the
Japanese-American Conversation Insti­tute
of the International Education
Center in Tokyo, Japan, were hosted by
Thunderbird in January. Their visit to
Phoenix was a part of a 25-day tour
that began in Los Angeles, with stops
in New Orleans, El Paso, and EI Cajon,
California.
The students, who are all bankers in
Japan, represented the largest banks in
that country. They attend the Japanese­American
Conversation Institute (JACI)
after approximately three to six years
of working experience. The course in
English is six months in duration, and
the U.S. tour is the final phase of the
program. During the tour the students
were exposed to the English language
and observed first hand the business
and social customs of the people of the
United States. After returning to their
jobs in Japan, they are available for
transfer to branches of their banks that
may be opening in other countries.
The tour leaders were Dr. Mitsuo Hashi­moto,
Academic Director, and Mr. Taka­shi
Suzuki, Assistant Head of JACI. The
program at Thunderbird was coordin­ated
by Chris Larsen, Director of Special
Projects.
JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN ENJOY THE
NIGHT LIFE AT TH'UN'DERBIRD
. PANESE COMPANY
REPRESENTATIVES VISIT
CAMPUS
Thunderbird hosted a group of Japa­nese
r epresentatives from major com­pa
nies for a one-day meeting in F ebru­ary.
The purpose of their visit was to
discuss the objectives of the School, our
curriculum, teaching methods and how
we differ from graduate schools of
business.
The group of seven was headed by Mr.
Yoshimas a Hemmi, Manager, Personnel
Department, Teyin Limited. Other mem­bers
were : J. Tawara, Manager, Re­search
& Development, Japan Industrial
& Voca tional Training Association; T.
Kamata, Education Manager, Education
& Training Division, Nippon Electric
Co., Ltd .; M. Saika, Director of Educa­tion
& Training Division, San yo Electric
Co., Ltd.; M. Yoshimura, Manager, Man-
3gement Development Department, Tak­akyu
Ltd.; T. Namiki, Head Training
Institute, Okamura Manufacturing Co.,
Ltd., and M. Otsuka, Overseas Manage­ment
& Engineering Research Asso­ciation.
ARAB ENVOY ON CAMPUS
Dr. Clovis Maksoud, special envoy of
the League of Arab States, recently
addressed Thunderbird students on the
current situation in the Middle East.
Dr. Maksoud's campus appearance was
sponsored by the Middle East and Africa
Club at Thunderbird.
He is senior editor and columnist for
AN-NAHAR in Cairo, and visited the
U.S . for three months on an intensified
campaign of information envisaged by
the Arab Summit Conference held last
November in Algiers.
Dr. Maksoud's appearance at Thunder­bird
was televised by three local stations.
GULICK NAMED STATE
NAFSA REPRESENTATIVE
Dr. Robert L. Gulick, Jr. has been
named Arizona State Representative for
the National Association for Foreign
Student Affairs. His affiliation with
NAFSA dates back more than fifteen
years to the time when he taught Eng­lish
as a Second Language in North
Africa.
SIBLEY RECEIVES
ALFRED KNIGHT AWARD
GEHRY OGDEN SIBLEY, a native of
Topeka, Kansas, received the December
1973 Alfred Knight Scholarship Award
for excellence in scholastic achievement.
Gerry attended Wichita State Univer­sity,
and received a BSAE and MSAE in
Engineering from the University of
Kansas. He is the son of Mr. Lorin E.
Sibley, 1740 Moundview Drive, Topeka,
Kansas.
FORMER THUNDERBIRD PRE
GUEST PROFESSOR AT
I RAN INSTITUTE
Former Thunderbird President, Dr. Ar­thur
L. Peterson, spent the Fall '73
semester as a guest professor at the Iran
Novin Institute of Political Science in
Tehran. Dr. Peterson is Chairman of the
Political Science Department at Ohio
Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
The Petersons' son, Jon Martin, spent
several weeks in Washington, D.C. work­ing
in Senator William Saxbe's office,
and during the summer months he
assisted in the management of his uncle's
sapphire mine near Helena, Montana .
Last Fall, the rest of the Peterson family
(Connie, Ingrid, Donna and Becky) en­joyed
a six weeks' visit to Greece, J eru­salem
and Tehran.
DAVE CAMPBELL
SUFFERS STROKE
JOHN DAVID CAMPBELL, who r etired
in 1971 and one of Thunderbird's most
popular professors, suffered a stroke in
December and was hospitalized in Phoe ­nix
for several weeks. In January, the
Campbell's daughter, Mrs. J ohn Llewel­lyn,
moved Dave and Verna to Louis­ville,
Kentucky where he has been
hospitalized since his arrival. We know
that the Campbells would enjoy hearing
from their Thunderbird friends and may
be contacted in care of Mrs. John
Llewellyn, 990 Alta Vista Road, Louis­ville,
KY 40205."
In recognition of Dave's years of devoted
service to Thunderbird, the professorial
chair sponsored by the Scaife Family
Charitable Trust has been named the
John David Campbell Chair of Ameri­can
Business.
ABC FEATURES
DECOLA REPORT
One of the ABC NEWS CLOSEUP fea­tures
in February was a report on
"Women in Prison" produced and di­rected
by JOE DeCOLA, a 1961 Thun­derbird
graduate.
The documentary was a 60-minute tele­vised
report on institutions in Ohio,
California and West Virginia, where
women inmates were filmed and inter­viewed
during work and recreation
periods.
Joe comments: "Prison practices de­humanize
and there is a lack of real
rehabilitation programs. We examine
whether the system of women's incar­ceration
should be changed or even
abolished ." Included in the film were
views from prison officials and a report
on a community-correction facility in
Des Moines, Iowa.
One of Joe's earlier efforts was "Mis­sion
to Yenan", which ran on NBC a
week prior to President Nixon's China
trip and received excellent reviews.
Since that time he has made a number
of documentary films.
ARE YOU AWARE OF THE AT THUNDERBIRD?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN ALUMNI EDUCATIONAL COUNSELOR?
We want to take this opportunity to express publicly our appreciation to the
many alumni who participate in our campus recruiting activities. Last fall, we placed
representatives on 155 campuses, at which time contact was made with 1,292 students,
in addition to 583 faculty and staff members. For this spring.. we are attempting to
place representatives on about 60 campuses. This intensive activity, which is by far
the largest graduate school recruiting activity of its kind in the United States, is
possible because of the participation of faculty and staff members, current students,
and esj3ec-ially alumni. Our alumni representatives made approximately 60% of our
campus visits, whereas students account for about 15% of the visits, faculty and staff
handle around 25%.
T.here are about 250 Alumni Educational Counselors who work with us actively
in this respect. As we all know, however, our alumni are mobile and have many
demands placed on their time in pursuit of their business obligations. For this reason,
we are frequently in a position of not having enough Alumni Educational Counselors
in a given area right at the time when we need help. Therefore, we would very much
like to have additional alumni volunteers, especially in large campus population
districts, such as the Boston-New York City area, the Milwaukee-Chicago-Detroit
area, and the San Francisco-Los Angeles area. If you feel that your professional
obligations would allow your spending one day in the fall and one day in the spring
each- year to visit a campus on our behalf, please write to me as soon as possible to
offer )Lour services.
Aside from these official Alumni Educational Counselors, there are of course
many meFe of you who occasionally counsel students or who disseminate information
about the School. Since you are not on our active AEC mailing list, it must be
difficult to keep abreast of the many developments on our campus. For this reason,
we would like to give you a brief summary of our status. )
ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT BODY COMPOSITION After our record en­rollment
of 874 students last fall, it was decided to restrict enrollment this spring to
approximately 780 students. }i:ox: this reason, in October we stopped accepting appli­cations
for the spring. Although the final count has not been determined at the time
this report is made, it appears that our spring enrollment will be approximately 777
students. Women should account for about 9% of the enrollment, and students from
other countries should represent approximately 18% of the enrollment. It appears
that the average age will be 26% years. About 32% of the American males are
veterans; about 35% of the students are married. As far as undergraduate majors
are conce.rned, between 35% and 40% are in Business Administration, Economics,
and related subjects. Political Science/ Government represent about 15-18% of the
student body, and languages have equal representation.
FAOULTY SIZE· Of the 76 faculty members, 60 are full time, whereas 16 are
part time.
STANDARDS OF ACOEPTANCE Our basic requirements are that an applicant
hold a bachelor's degree or higher from. an accredited institution and a grade point
average of 2.5 or better. Experience or accomplishments subsequent to undergraduate
work are also considered by the Admissions Committee.
APPLICATION DEADLINES There are no deadlines for general applications,
although it is advisable to tell prospective students that they should file applications
with us at least six months in advance of the semester of preference. (We turned
down approximately 130 new applications for this spring semester, back in October.)
At no time can we guarantee that the student can be accepted · for any particular
semester. On the other hand, there are deadlines for scholarship or assistantship
applications. In such cases, all supporting documents should be received here no later
than April 1 for the fall semester or summer session, and no later than November 1
for the spring semester.
SUMMER SESSION The summer session program has proven to be highly
beneficial to the School and a-lk students ·ctmcerned. Last summer, we had 443 enrolled,
of which 40 were in the Guadalajara program. Ror this corning summer, we are
attempting to restrict enrollment to 440 on this campus plus another 60 in Guadala­jara.
Students using the summer session can complete the program in 12 months;
and it does not matter to s whether the student enters in the spring, summer or fall.
WINTERIM The winterim session running from January 2 to January 25 is
geared basically to continuing students who want to take up to four credit hours of
work, either for credit or for improving a grade in a given course. We have just
completed our second winterim, with an enrollment of 330 students. While it is
possible for a student to ent er in the winterim, we do not encourage this practice,
because of the extreme concentration of the course work and the limitation of
courses offered.
~ Tuition is now $1,100 and various miscellaneous fees amount to $125
per semester. The cost of lodging on cam pus is either $215 or $175 for a single
student, and eIther $450 or $400 for a married couple per semester depending on
choice of accommodations. Q course, a person who lodges on can';pus must also
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board on campus, and the cost forboar. t is $400 per person per semester. Books
and supplies should cost each student al50ut $100 per semester. If you take all of
these costs and throw in a little extra for personal expenses, it means that each
single student will spend approximately $2,100 per regular semester (although some­what
less during a summer session), if he lives on campus. A married couple living
on campus will spend about $3,000 for everything each semester.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION The same basic requirements as out­lined
on pages 63-64 of the Bulletin still pertain, although these are subject to modi­fication.
Each student must complete 48 credit hours of work here on campus includ­ing
15 hours in the Department of Modern Language, 9 hours in the Department of
International Studies and 15 hours in the Department of World Business. Those
students who have already met some of these minimum requirements before entering
the School can obtain waivers on such requirements. Those students who enter the
program without meeting any of the minimum specified requirements will have only
nine elective hours in the total program. The average is 12 to 15 elective hours.
Waivers apply, of coul'se, to subject matter only. All students must complete 48
semester hours of work, except those who are in the position of transferring into our
program with up to a maximum of 6 credit hours with a grade of B or better taken
at an accredited institution, in subjects relating to our curriculum.
SUNG KYUN KWAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM We have a working arrange­ment
with Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, Korea, whereby some of our
students might take up to 12 semester hours of work on that campus, and whereby
some of their students might be able to transfer up to 12 semester hours of work
into our program, leading to the Master of International Management degree. There
is also some exchange of faculty members.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM A program
was initiated with Southern Methodist University this past fall, whereby students
can earn a joint MIM-MBA degree by taking 30 hours of work here and 30 hours at
SMU, requiring two years for the joint degree.
NEW COURSES Several new courses were introduced this spring, and more are
planned for the fall. 0'f particular interest is the addition of Chinese (Mandarin)
language, starting the fall semester, 1974. Some of the new courses introduced this
spring are: IS-414 Contemporary Communist China; IS-427 Economic History of
Western Europe; IS-438 Inter-American Relations; IS-475 Advanced International
Relations; IS-582 Political Modernization. Some of the new courses offered in the
Department of World Business are: WB-421 Managerial Finance; WB-432 Production
and Operations Management-Systems and Controls; WB-440 Guidelines in Worldwide
Operations; WB-452 Sales Management and Retailing; WB-453 Marketing Research­Buyer
Behavior; WB-463 American Business Systems.
PLACEMENT The one point we continually emphasize is that our Career
Service Center is one of the most active in the country. The student receives group
and personal counsel from the day he arrives and a most effective program has been
developed over the years. Representatives from approximately 100 to 150 organiza­tions
visit campus each year to recruit students, and the Center is in communication
with hundreds of other organizations in an effort to lead our graduates to the right
professional goal. Approximately 60 % of the last three graduating classes had offers
at the time of graduation, and most of these students had multiple offers at that
time. In view of the national economic picture this is a reasonably healthy position to
be in. In the final analysis, however, it is the student's own efforts and career
preparation that makes it possible for him to find his spot in the business world . Our
School does not and cannot guarantee an individual a job.
FRANK JACKLE HAS THE FLOOR at Gyger
retirement party.
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John J. Arthur, Registrar
and College Relations Officer
OLDTIMERS AT THUNDERBIRD - (left to
right) Fred Gyger, P'aul Wilson, Larry Finney,
and Berger Erickson.
. trGER RETIRES
FRED GYGER, Superintendent of Build­ing
and Grounds, was honored at a re­tirement
party on November 1st in the
Key Man Lounge. Fred's career dates
back to the days when Thunderbird was
a pilot training center.
Former Thunderbird President, Arthur
L. Peterson, once called Fred the "Magi­cian
at Thunderbird" because he some­how
managed to keep our old World
War II structures in remarkably good
condition. His ingenuity, creativity, de­votion
and just plain hard work were
combined to not only maintain, but to
improve the beauty and serviceability
of the campus.
As a token of appreciation for his ser­vices
the School presented Fred with a
handsome watch, and the staff and
faculty gave him a SUbstantial cash gift
to be used in the purchase of a portable
work shop for his home.
TALK ABOUT STICK-TO-ITIVENESS! FRED
GYGER, a 28 year veteran of AIFT, TGSIM
and AGSIM, has survived seven pres,idenh,
three school names, 150 plus changes ill
personnel and more than 8,000 students.
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TOM WRIGHT FAMILY KILLED
IN PARIS CRASH
The March 3rd crash
of a Turkish jet­liner
near Orly Air­port
in France cost
the lives of an en­tire
Thunderbird
family. Killed in
the disaster were
THOMAS and FAY
WRIGHT of Lon­don,
and their three
children.
A graduate of the
Class of June 1963,
Tom was Managing
Director of the Mer­rill
Lynch-Brown Shipley Bank Ltd. in
London. He began his banking career
with Chase Manhattan Bank in July
1963, and after a training period in the
New York headquarters was assigned to
the London branch. In 1967, he became
assistant manager of that branch and
in 1968 he returned to the home office
and was appointed assistant treasurer
for the Northern' Europe and Italy Zone.
In 1969, he joined Hambros American
Bank & Trust Company in New York as
a Vice President in the Internation31
Division. In the summer of 1972 he was
named Managing Director of the Merrill
Lynch-Brown Shipley Bank Ltd. in
London, a position he held until his
death.
A native of Berkeley, California, Tom
graduated from the University of Cali­fornia
in 1956. Following graduation
from UC he was employed by the Paci­fic
Finance Corporation and later by
the Westinghouse Credit Corporation.
Fay was also a native of California and
received her degree in psychology from
the University of Oregon.
The alumni records list Tom's parents
as Mr. and Mrs. E'dward P. Wright, 1040
Park Hills, Berkeley, California. Fay's
parents are listed as Mr. and Mrs. Mc­Culloch
Campbell of 2733 Claremont
Blvd., Berkeley, California.
1955 KEY MAN DIES
P. BURKE SMITH, who attended the
Summer 1955 Key Man Course under
the sponsorship of the Proctcr & Gamble
Company, died on January 7, 1973. For
the past eight years he served as Direc­tor
of Advertising for P & G operations
in France. He is survived by his wife,
Margaret, and two children.
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THUNDERBIRDS PERISH IN SAO PAULO BANK FIRE
Marsh Williams Reic
A short circuit in a 12th floor air-conditioning system triggered a blaze in the
25-story building occupied by the First National City Bank in Sao Paulo which cost
the lives of at least 220 Citibank personnel including three Thunderbird graduates­L.
CODY MARSH, WILLIAM F. WILLIAMS and PAULO REIS.
Both Cody and Bill had spent their entire business careers with Citibank.
Cody, who died of asphyxiation, joined the bank after graduating in June 1955
and at the time of his death was the assistant controller of the 50 percent-owned
Banco Crefisul de Investimento. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. L. Cody Marsh
of 2906 East Waverly, Tucson, Arizona 85716; his wife Carol, two sons and a daughter.
Bill, a January 1961 graduate met his wife, the former KAREN GUSTAFSON,
at Thunderbird. He joined the bank shortly after graduating and at the time of his
death was General Manager of the Sao Paulo branch. He died. in a fall from the 20th
floor of the building. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. W. D. Williams, 4518 North
38th, Phoenix, 85018; his wife Karen, a son and two daughters.
Karen and Carol plan to remain in Sao Paulo and may be reached through the
First National City Bank, Caixa Postal 8888, Sao Paulo.
The third Thunderbird lost in the disaster was Paulo Baptista Da Silva Reis, a
member of the August 1972 Class. Paulo joined the Bank in the Fall of 1972 and was
in the management trainee program. He is survived by his wife, and his mother, Mrs.
Irene Da Silva, Rua Marechal Mascarenhas de Morais 225/901, Rio de Janeiro.
DEATH OF 1948 GRADUATE
EUGENE J. SLADKY, a native of Chi­cago,
passed away on December 24, 1973,
in his Lake Shore Drive apartment from
an apparent heart attack. He had been
in ill health for several months.
For a time after graduating from Thun­derbird
in June 1948, Gene was em­ployed
by the A. G. McClurg Company
of Chicago, and later became a copy­writer
for an Illinois based publishing
house. He joined Holtzman-Kain Adver­tising
Agency in 1969.
Gene had never married. He is survived
by six aunts and uncles and a nephew,
Richard Sladky, of 4612 North Sayre
Avenue, Harwood Heights, IL 60656.
Services were held at Svec & Sons
Funeral Home in Berwyn, Illinois, with
his uncle, Mr. Frank Kostka, officiating.
Cremation followed the services.
HABER DIES OF LEUKEMIA
LELAND EUGENE HABER, Class of
February 1951, and a resident of Colo­rado
Springs, Colorado, died on January
19th, 1973 of Leukemia.
Lee, as he was known to his many
friends, retired from the United States
Air Force in 1965 with the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel. In September 1966
he entered Federal Civil Service at
NORAD, from which he retired only
three months before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Anne, of
1433 Laurette Drive, Colorado Springs
80909; two sons, Thomas, a student at
the University of Colorado in Boulder,
and Michael, a junior in High School.
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ROBERT P. FORTUNE '47 DIES . ;'3ill and Phyllis moved to the Bahamas
- several years ago where he is Director
ROBERT P . FOR- of the J. S. Johnson Insurance Company.
TUNE., President of Following Phyllis' death Bill suffered a
Mid-American In- heart attack and was hospitalized in the
ternational Corpora- Miami Heart Institute for several weeks.
tion, died at his In- He has returned to his position on a
dianapolis home on limited schedule.
September 30th. He
had been president
of the export-import
firm for the past
thirteen years.
He was donor of the
Fortune-Fry Laboratory of the Indiana­polis
Center for Advanced Research at
Indiana-Purdue University. He also sup­ported
the Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indiana University and Cornelia Cole
Fairbanks Hospital.
He was a graduate of Lawrenceville
(N.J.) Academy and attended Princeton
and Purdue Universities. He was a June
1947 graduate of Thunderbird.
He was a board member of the Univer­sity
Club, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Hos­pital
and Flynn Houses Inc., of Indiana­polis.
He was a member of the Athletic
Club, Woodstock Club, Dramatic Club,
Circle Club, Princeton Club of New
York City and the Windemere Island
Club at Eleuthera, Bahamas.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps
during World War II and received the
Distinguished Flying Cross with three
clusters and the Air Medal.
An editorial in The Indianapolis Star
says: "No one person can possibly know
all the good Robert (Pete) Fortune did
for his fellow man. There is a record of
sizeable charitable contributions, service
to his country as a distinguished flyer
in World War II, a key role in the
establishment of Fairbanks hospital and
a quiet but effective role at Trinity
Episcopal Church."
"But Pete Fortune did a lot more than
that for individuals. He was a charming
person and that charm must have car­ried
over into the little-known but all­hours
help he gave to members of the
Alcoholics Anonymous ... Pete Fortune
never turned down a call whatever the
hour. The help he gave remains in the
hearts and minds of those he helped.
They and all of those who knew him are
thankful for a life of unusual service."
Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth,
of 4567 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis,
Indiana; a son, Dr. Peter Fortune of
Harvard University; two daughters, Mrs.
Peter M. Thompson of Bellevue, Wash­ington;
and Miss Carroll Wild of In­dianapolis;
two brothers and five grand­children.
DEATH OF PHYLLIS RUSH
Phyllis Rush, wife of Bill Rush of the
Class of February 1957, died suddenly
at their Nassau home on June 27th fol­lowing
a brief illness. Their daughter
Karen was with her at the time.
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We know that Bill would appreciate
hearing from his many Thunderbird
friends and can be reached at P.O. Box
N8337, Nassau.
HERBERT HANSEN
VI,CTIM OF CANCER
Herbert C. Hansen,
43, died on Septem­ber
4th at a Los
Angeles hospital fol­lowing
an illness
of several months.
Death was attrib­uted
to cancer of the
liver and pancreas.
A native of Keno­sha,
Wisconsin, he
was a graduate of
Beloit College, and
a June 1956 gradu­ate
of Thunderbird. He also held a mas­ter
of arts degree from Northwestern
University and had completed training
in business management at Boston Uni­versity.
He was employed by the North America
Insurance Company following gradua­tion
from Thunderbird and served with
that company in England, The Nether­lands
and in Spain. He later joined the
Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he
coordinated the bank's services to the
insurance industry, and became a Vice
President in 1968.
In 1969 he established his own company
in Los Angeles, offering financial con­sulting
services to the insurance in­dustry.
Long an active Lutheran layman, he was
chairman of the board of pensions,
chairman of the committee on land
acquisition and management and chair­man
of the department of church ex­tension,
the Division of American
Missions, and of the American Lutheran
Church. He was also chairman of the
task force for the formation of the
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries of South­ern
California. He had been a member
of the Lutheran Brotherhood Board of
Directors since 1967.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila, a
son Clark (who was born at Thunder­bird),
and three daughters, Krista,
Claudia and Karla of 1551 Merriman
Drive, Glendale, California 91202.
'~CANN '65 CHAIRMANS
MERICAN FORTNIGHT­HONG
KONG
DON McCANN, Operations Manager for
Kodak (Far East) Ltd., was the 1973
Chairman of the "American Fortnight"
in Hong Kong.
The biggest trade promotion ever under­taken
in Hong Kong by an overseas
country was staged in October 1973.
There had been exhibitions many times
before, but this was the first carried
out Colony-wide. Throughout 14 days,
some 200 companies with United States
associations promoted American-made
consumer products and services through
over 500 retail and other outlets.
A conservative estimate is that spending
on the Fortnight by agents, importers,
distributors, banks, shipping companies,
airlines, retailers and the American
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
totaled HK$1 million, and that depart­ment
stores and supermarkets alone in­ventoried
more than $15 million of extra
products above their normal purchasing
especially for the promotion.
American Fortnight was an imaginative
commercial venture geared to (a) take
the market advantage of the improved
price situation stemming from the de­valuation
of the U.S. dollar (b) help
contribute towards solving America's
balance-of-payments problem, and (c)
to further boost U.S.-Hong Kong busi­ness
relations.
The American Fortnight venture is the
result of more than 20 months of plan­ning
which began with a suggestion at
a meeting of the American Chamber of
Commerce in Hong Kong that it was the
time to promote American-made con­sumer
products and services.
What is particularly impressive is that
the program was an involvement of the
entire American Community including
the American Women's Association,
Hong Kong International School, the
American Club, Servicemen's Guides
Association, the Little League, the U.S.
Navy and the United States Information
Service.
Don was assigned to the Hong Kong
operations of Kodak in 1966 and has
resided there since that time.
8UPPOR'P YOUR
ALUJlf~NI FUND!
MALL YOUR CHECK
TODAY!
·~S§OC:l.~TrrON e 'WS •
ROKAHR '47 RECEIVES
SO. CALIFORNIA ALUMNUS
OF THE YEAR AWARD
JACK ROKAHR,
who has spent his
entire career in the
field of international
market develop­ment,
received the
1973 SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA A­LUMNUS
OF THE
YEAR AWARD at
the November meet­ing
in Los Angeles.
A graduate of the University of Nebras­ka
and a member of Thunderbird's first
graduating class, he joined E. R. Squibb
& Son International in 1949 and spent
several years in Southeast Asia as a
Special Representative.
In 1954, he joined Mead Johnson Inter­national
and was subsequently assigned
to Lima, Peru, as South America
Regional Manager. He traveled in 66
countries making market studies and
promoting Squibb and Mead Johnson
lines.
Jack joined the U.S. Department of
Commerce Field Office in Los Angeles
in 1962, and since that time has been
primarily engaged in the implementa­tion
of the National Export Expansion
Program in the 10 Southern California
counties. He has been instrumental in
the development of many export con­ferences
and seminars in that area. He
is currently Assistant to the Director of
the Los Angeles Field Office.
In 1962, at the invitation of the UCLA
Business Extension Department, he de­veloped
a course in Fundamentals of
Export Trade. He taught this course for
ten years, finally retiring in 1972. Some
500 students during that time had the
benefit of his expertise and experience.
Jack is considered one of the finest in­structors
in Southern California and is
in much demand as a lecturer. He is
widely known in international circles
and enjoys a wide and excellent repu­tation
in the international business com­munity.
In accepting the Award, Jack reminisced
about the early days at Thunderbird
(which apparently were anything but
dull) and recalled many of his class­mates
of that era.
The November 10th meeting of the
Southern California Alumni Chapter,
held at La Villa Taxco, was attended by
approximately 80 alumni and guests.
Paul Wilson, Thunderbird's Armco Pro­fessor
of Accounting for International
Management, was also honored at the
meeting. Unfortunately, Paul was unable
to attend and his award (a desk plaque)
was accepted by President William
Voris.
The Southern California group will hold
the customary June meeting. To assure
that newcomers in the area will be in­cluded
in the invitation list we suggest
that they contact the Chapter President,
Larry Lipsher - Telephone: 789-7505 or
462-2088. Senorita de Noronha, a long­time
Thunderbird favorite, has promised
to be on hand for this meeting.
ENGLAND GROUP HOLD
GET ACQUAINTED MEETING
The ENGLAND Thunderbirds held a
get acquainted cocktail party on Friday
evening, March 15th, at the American
Club in London. Michael Adams, assis­tant
manager of the London branch of
The Royal Bank of Canada, was in
charge of the planning. More on this in
the next issue of THE THUNDERBIRD.
CHICAGO ALUMNS FETE
PRESIDENT
We have BOB BEAN and BOB JOHN­SON
to thank for the last minute "round
up" of the CHICAGO area Thunder­birds
to honor President Voris when he
was in the City to attend the February
World Trade Conference.
Forty plus alumni and guests met in the
conference room of the Chicago Asso­ciation
of Commerce and Industry for
an informal cocktail party, including
first and second generation Thunder­birds-
the KEN MILLERS '49 and son,
RANDY '73.
The get-together stimulated interest in
future gatherings and we hope to see
a reorganization of the once active Chi­cago
alumni chapter. There is some talk
of a summer meeting. If you would like
to help with plans we urge you to get
in touch with Bob J ohnson-telephone:
(312) 358-6464 (Address: Taft Avenue,
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008.
CHICAGO THUHDER8IRDS-(left to right)
Bill Davis '68, Lestie Shearer '66, Carof An­derson
'70, Bob Begani '6,7, President Voris,
Johannes Combee '7'2, Chris Topoulos '7'2,
Chip Wood '65, Udo Sietens '70.
THUHDERBIRDS FROM THE AIFT DAYS
pose with President Voris: (left to right) Jim
Kindelin '54, President Voris, Bob Johnson
'59, and Frank Krescanko '5,7.
COSTA RICA THUNDERBIRDS
ENTERTAIN BOARD CHAIRMAN
On December 15th, the COSTA RICA
alumni hosted a luncheon in honor of
Mr. James E. Patrick, Chairman of the
Thunderbird Board of Directors. Mr.
Patrick was visiting the country at the
invitation of the President of Costa Rica.
He reports that the luncheon (organized
by Jim Dahlstrom '58) was a tremen­dous
success and that he enjoyed meet­ing
the area alumni, who were very
enthusiastic about the recent develop­ments
at Thunderbird.
FASCHING IN MUNICH
The EUROPEAN ALUMNI CHAPTER
planned to hold its annual Fasching in
Munich weekend on February 22/ 23
and 24th. We know that the meeting
was the usual success and shall report
more on it in the next issue of THE
THUNDERBIRD.
WASHINGTON D.C. ALUMS HOLD
FIRST DECEMBER-FEST
The Bavarian Restaurant at 727 11th
Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C. was
the scene of the first DECEMBER-FEST
hosted by the D.C. Group. The December
7th meeting brought out some thirty
Thunderbirds, wives and friends. Hon­ored
guests were Thunderbird President
William Voris, and Mrs. Barton Kyle
Yount, widow of the School's founder.
Election of officers was held with Henry
Avalos '70 being voted into the Presi­dency,
Eugene Castle '71, Vice President,
and Tom Brewer '61, Secretary-Treas­urer.
The retiring President, Steve Conger '50,
did a marvelous job of reorganizing the
D.C. Chapter, and we hope that it will
continue to be a success.
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PRESIDENT VORIS and MRS. YOUNT VISIT AT WASHINGTON
MEETING
HANDSOME GROU,P - PRESIDENT VORIS,
DICK BELL '64 and MAL LINDSTROM '47
THERE WAS MUCH SOCIAlLIZING AND REMINISCING AT DECEMBER-FEST
LIBERIA THUNDERBIRDS
CONVENE
Seventeen LIBERIA alumni and wives
held a dinner meeting a few months ago
at the Chateau du Bois in Monrovia.
The meeting was attended by: HENRY
CONWAY '55 (President, International
Trust Company ); LOUIS FORD '56
(United Liberia Rubbe r Company);
MOSES and LOIS HARRIS '70 (Bank
of Monrovia); DAVE KOMAROMI '68
and CHARLEY and MARY JANE ST.
CLAIR '56 (United States Trading Com­pany);
JOHN and TWEE SEELINGER
'68 and DAVE and VICKI SCHNELLER
'69 (Chase Manhattan Bank); JOE and
DIANE LONGO '70 and MAMADEE and
GENEVIEVE DORBOR '72 (American
International Group) and MARV and
GAIL DOLE '67 (Liberia Tractor and
Equipment Company) .
Since that time the Dave Schnellers
have r eturned to Colorado, where he is
pursuing his Masters and Vicki is t each­ing;
and the Charley St. Cla!rs are cur­rently
residing in the Phoemx area .
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